In January 2026, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) officially extended the mandate of its Ad-Hoc Working Group (AHWG) on Data Protection Engineering for another three years.

ID side CEO, Marie-Charlotte Roques-Bonnet, is delighted to continue contributing to this initiative bridging real life Privacy Engineering capacities to upcoming and forward-looking EU regulations along with ENISA lead Dr. Prokopios Drogkaris and co-members including Isabel Barberá (Dutch Coordinating Supervisor on AI), Claude Castelluccia (INRIA), Giuseppe D'Acquisto (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali), Marta Fydrych-Gąsowska (mBank SA), Marit Hansen (Schleswig-Hstein Data Protection Authority), Jaap-Henk Hoepman (Radboud University and University of Groningen and Karlstad University), Meiko Jensen (Kiel University of Applied Sciences), Irene Kamara (Tilburg Law School TILT), Konstantinos Limniotis (Hellenic Data Protection Authority), Maria Raphael (RF Privacy Minders Ltd), Fernando Silva (Data Protection Unit at the European Parliament), Dr. Fatbardh Veseli (Capgemini), Bárbara Vieira (AWS), Kim Wuyts (DistriNet) and "observer" members (EDPB, EDPS, AEPD).

Since 2022, this group has notably played a critical role in translating GDPR & EU regulations' core principles from legal text into practical, engineerable solutions. This three-year renewal is a fantastic opportunity to deepen contributions, specifically through the lens of digital identity, user sovereignty in the Digital and AI environments and upcoming brand new consent mechanisms (art 88 B GDPR).