EDPS Annual Report 2025: protecting people in a changing digital world
The European Data Protection Supervisor has published its Annual Report for 2025, covering a year the agency describes as focused on expanding its operational mandate across monitoring, enforcement, and advisory roles. The report is accompanied by an executive summary, a supervisory speech, and a press conference.
Why this matters: The EDPS is the watchdog for EU institutions — it oversees how bodies like the European Commission, Europol, and eu-LISA handle personal data. What it does, or does not do, shapes privacy standards across the bloc. Annual reports like this one are a paper trail. They show which institutions got scrutinized, which new powers the agency took on, and where it chose to act or hold back. If you want to know whether European data protection is getting stronger or softer in practice, this is one of the documents worth reading past the press release.
Who should care: Lawyers · Privacy officers · AI governance
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