DPOs must adopt a service mindset with Axel Voss (Member of EU Parliament) E079 S4 in The FIT4Privacy Podcast

DPOs must adopt a service mindset with Axel Voss (Member of EU Parliament) E079 S4  Axel Voss shares his views on successful GDPR and the importance of protecting the privacy of the citizens. Axel, a member of the EU parliament and part of creating legislation and laws, shares his perspective on the future of AI & privacy in Europe. He shares that businesses must go ahead with their ideas while DPO must adopt a service mindset. Let’s listen to the conversation between Axel Voss and Punit Bhatia.   KEY CONVERSATION POINTS  GDPR in one word would be "successful" GDPR is essential for protecting the personal information of citizens  AI must be trustworthy Businesses must implement their new ideas DPOs must adopt a service mindset ABOUT THE GUEST Axel Voss (CDU) - born in 1963 - studied law at the Universities of Trier, Freiburg, and Munich. Since 1994, he is working as a lawyer. From 1994 to 2000, he was a civil advisor at the EU Commission's representation in Germany. Afterward, he worked for nine years as a lecturer for European Affairs at the RheinAhrCampus of the College of Koblenz.  He became a Member of the European Parliament in 2009, where he represents the Mittelrhein area, which includes the cities of Cologne, Bonn, and Leverkusen and the districts Rhein-Sieg and Rhein-Erft. Axel Voss is EPP coordinator for the Committee on Legal Affairs as well as deputy member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and from 2020 to 2022 member and rapporteur in the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence. Besides questions of European Law, his main area of expertise is the digitization of our daily life. For the European People’s Party group, he was among others (shadow-)rapporteur for the new Copyright Directive, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Passenger Name Record Directive (PNR) as well as the updated Eurojust Regulation. At the moment, he is a (shadow-)rapporteur for the AI Act and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive.  Axel Voss is also CDU chair of the regional section Mittelrhein, regional chair of the Europe Union Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, and Vice President of the Mérite Européen Friendship and Assistance Association, Germany.    For more information: www.axel-voss-europa.de   ABOUT THE HOST  Punit Bhatia is one of the leading privacy experts who works independently and has worked with professionals in over 30 countries. Punit works with business and privacy leaders to create an organizational culture with high privacy awareness and compliance as a business priority. Selectively, Punit is open to mentoring and coaching privacy professionals.  Punit is the author of books “Be Ready for GDPR” which was rated as the best GDPR Book, “AI & Privacy – How To Find Balance”, “Intro To GDPR”, and “Be an Effective DPO”. Punit is a global speaker who has spoken at over 30 global events. Punit is the creator and host of the FIT4PRIVACY Podcast. This podcast has been featured among the top GDPR and privacy podcasts.  As a person, Punit is an avid thinker and believes in thinking, believing, and acting in line with one’s values to have joy in life. He has developed the philosophy named ‘ABC for the joy of life’ which passionately shares. Punit is based out of Belgium, the heart of Europe.    RESOURCES   Websites www.axel-voss-europa.de , www.fit4privacy.com , www.punitbhatia.com Podcast https://www.fit4privacy.com/podcast Blog https://www.fit4privacy.com/blog