AEPD

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https://www.aepd.es/

Last activity: 27.10.2026

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Autoridad pública independiente encargada de fomentar el cumplimiento de la normativa de #proteccióndedatos.

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Location

Spain, Community of Madrid, Madrid

Employees

11-50

Founded date

1993

Mentions in press and media 22

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Sep 4, 2026	AI Privacy Rules Beyond GDPR: Council of Europe Draft Covers 55 Nations	By Scott McCain Published: Sep 04 2026, 11:30 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard
Jun 10, 2025	Worldcoin's Orb: A New Eye on Identity Verification in the UK	In a world where digital identity is as fragile as a soap bubble, Sam Altman’s Worldcoin is stepping in with a bold solution. The UK is about to witness the launch of the Orb, a spherical device designed to scan irises and verify human iden...
Jun 9, 2025	Worldcoin’s Eye-Scanning ID Tech Launches in UK	The UK is set to become the next major launchpad for Sam Altman’s controversial identity project, as the OpenAI CEO’s Worldcoin begins rolling out its eye-scanning ‘Orbs’ to verify users as human in an era of increasingly convincing AI. Sta...
May 5, 2025	Indonesia suspends eye-scanning Worldcoin crypto project	JAKARTA: Indonesian authorities said they have suspended Worldcoin, the eyeball-scanning cryptocurrency project co-founded by OpenAI chief Sam Altman under scrutiny in several countries. Since Worldcoin launched in 2023, millions of people ...
Dec 20, 2024	Worldcoin must delete all iris scan data, watchdog says	MADRID : Sam Altman's company Worldcoin must delete all iris scanning data collected since the start of the project that has sparked privacy concerns in several countries, Spanish data protection watchdog AEPD said on Thursday. AEPD ci...
May 31, 2024	Spain Hits Pause on Meta's EU Election Tools Over Data Privacy Concerns	By John Lopez Published May 31, 2024 11:04AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard Share on Pocket Spain's data protection watchdog, the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEP...
May 31, 2024	Spain's data watchdog blocks two EU election tools from Meta's Instagram, Facebook	MADRID :Spain's data protection watchdog AEPD has ordered the provisional suspension of two planned Meta products set to be deployed in the upcoming European election on its social media platforms Instagram and Facebook, it said on Fri...
Mar 10, 2024	В Испании запретили работу криптопроекта Worldcoin с биометрией для защиты данных пользователей	Испанское агентство по защите данных (AEPD) потребовало от корпорации Tools for Humanity прекратить сбор и обработку некоторых категорий персональных данных. Ранее в агентство поступило несколько жалоб, в которых, среди прочего, говорится о...
Mar 7, 2024	Things really aren't going to plan for Sam Altman's strange eyeball-scanning orb	Tech Things really aren't going to plan for Sam Altman's strange eyeball-scanning orb Beatrice Nolan 2024-03-07T10:36:31Z Share icon An curved arrow pointing right. Share Facebook Icon The letter F. Facebook Email icon An envelope...
Mar 6, 2024	Worldcoin hit with temporary ban in Spain over privacy concerns	Spain’s data protection authority has ordered Worldcoin to temporarily stop collecting and processing personal data from the market. It must also stop processing any data it previously collected there. The controversial, Sam Altman-founded ...
May 8, 2023	MWC’s organizer slapped with GDPR fine over biometrics ID checks due diligence	Conferences and other in-person events rushing to impose facial recognition on attendees in Europe without doing the necessary due diligence over data protection risks beware: The organizers of the global connectivity industry shindig, Mobi...
May 18, 2022	Spain slaps Google for frustrating the EU’s ‘right to be forgotten’	Here’s a rare sight: Google has been hit with a €10 million fine by Spain for serious breaches of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which found it had passed information that could be used to identify citizens r...
Dec 7, 2021	ServiceNow : The business case for AI governance	By Jean-François Gagné, head of AI product management and strategy, ServiceNow Artificial intelligence is not the "black box" it once was. Instead of blindly embedding enterprise-level AI algorithms into their systems without unde...
Jul 6, 2021	Italy’s DPA fines Glovo-owned Foodinho $3M, orders changes to algorithmic management of riders	Algorithmic management of gig workers has landed Glovo-owned, on-demand delivery firm Foodinho in trouble in Italy where the country’s data protection authority issued a €2.6 million penalty (~$3M) yesterday after an investigation found a l...
Feb 8, 2021	Several parental control apps are privacy opaque and manipulate data for advertising purposes, research finds	This is an automated machine translation of an article published by Business Insider in a different language. Machine translations can generate errors or inaccuracies; we will continue the work to improve these translations. You can find th...
Jun 12, 2019	La Liga Fined €250K For Breaching GDPR While Spying on Piracy	With millions of fans around the globe, Spain’s La Liga soccer league is one of the most popular in the game. To allow fans to keep up with all the latest news, La Liga offers an Android app with a number of features including schedules, ki...
	EUR 30,000 for “a simple cookie banner”?!? – Spanish Supervisory Authority fines airline for non-compliance	The Spanish supervisory authority agencia española protección datos (“Supervisory Authority”) has issued a fine (the original Spanish document can be accessed here) against an airline based on their use of a cookie banner, which the Supervi...
	Guidance from E.U. Supervisory Authorities on Data Processing in a Time of COVID-19	The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and a number of European data protection supervisory authorities have recently issued guidance on processing personal data, including special categories of personal data (i.e., health data), in conn...
	Divergence Among EU Data Protection Authorities as Spanish DPA Rules that the Use of Google Analytics Does Not Breach the GDPR	In a recent decision, the AEPD (the Spanish data protection authority) became the first EU Data Protection Authority to reject one of the 101 complaints filed by privacy activist organisation, NOYB, against 101 European companies regarding ...
	Что такое файлы cookie и какие риски с ними связаны	Что такое файлы cookie и какие риски с ними связаны 23 Декабря, 2019, 16:01 AIN.UA 8538 Многие вледельцы сайтов слышали про файлы cookie. Те, кто не слышали, также ими пользуются, но просто об этом не знают. Что такое файлы cookie и какие р...
	Нові вимоги до маркетплейсів і пошуковиків у ЄС: чеклист змін у публічну оферту	Нові вимоги до маркетплейсів і пошуковиків у ЄС: чеклист змін у публічну оферту 08 Июля, 2020, 14:30 AIN.UA 2714 Regulation 2019/1150 внесе зміни у публічну оферту більшості сервісів. Разом з GDPR і PSD2 онлайн-посередники адаптуються і до ...

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FAQ about AEPD

When was AEPD founded?

AEPD was founded in 1993.

What has the press written about AEPD?

Parsers VC has collected 22 articles mentioning AEPD, among them “AI Privacy Rules Beyond GDPR: Council of Europe Draft Covers 55 Nations” (Sep 4, 2026) and “Worldcoin's Orb: A New Eye on Identity Verification in the UK” (Jun 10, 2025).

Is AEPD still active?

Yes, AEPD is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Oct 27, 2026.