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EDPS · · EU · Data Breaches

The European Data Protection Supervisor has published its latest newsletter, covering summer opinions on EU Justice and Home Affairs reform proposals, an analysis of quantum computing risks to encrypted data, and guidance on privacy-preserving data collaboration.

Why this matters: The quantum computing piece is the one worth your time. Data encrypted today can be harvested now and decrypted later, once quantum tools are powerful enough. That is not a future problem. It is a current one. The EDPS flagging it signals that European regulators are starting to think about whether current encryption standards will hold. If you work with sensitive data that needs to stay protected for years, that question is already relevant to you.

Who should care: Cybersecurity · Privacy officers · Administrators · Lawyers · AI governance · General readers · Policy

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