Today – European Data Protection Day – the Dutch Privacy Awards were handed out during the National Privacy Conference, a joint initiative by Privacy First and Dutch Platform for the Information Society ECP. The winners of the 2022 Dutch Privacy Awards are:
- Street Art Museum Amsterdam (SAMA)
- Quodari
- Summitto
- Center for Information Security and Privacy Protection (CIP).
The Dutch Privacy Awards provide a platform for companies and government agencies that see Privacy as an opportunity to positively stand out and make privacy-friendly entrepreneurship and innovation the norm. "These Awards have been handed out each year since 2015 and every time the jury nominated special, innovative and inspiring candidates. That’s been no different in 2022. Most of the time, privacy becomes a news item only when things have gone terribly wrong, when hefty fines are issued or certain parties incur serious reputational damage in court. In this respect, it would be a good thing if more attention would go out to ‘the bright side of privacy’ – to solutions that save time and money, strengthen trust, offer insights to people who need it and increase the overall effectiveness of various sorts of applications. The Dutch Privacy Awards are there to put the most inspiring initiatives in the spotlight and give these the recognition they deserve," said Awards jury chairman Wilmar Hendriks.
Nominations
There are four categories in which applicants are awarded:
1. the category of Consumer solutions (business-to-consumer)
2. the category of Business solutions (within a company or business-to-business)
3. the category of Public services (public authority-to-citizen)
4. The incentive Award for a groundbreaking technology or person.
From the various entries, the independent expert panel chose the following nominees per category (listed in arbitrary order):
- Scoor voor je Club
- Summitto
- Privacy Rating
- PiM, the Personal identity Manager by KPN
- Street Art Museum Amsterdam (SAMA)
- Quodari
- Shuttercam.
During the National Privacy Conference all nominees presented their projects to the digital audience in Award pitches. Thereafter, the Awards were handed out. Click HERE for the entire expert panel report (pdf in Dutch), which includes participation criteria and explanatory notes on all the nominees and winners.
WINNER Consumer solutions: Street Art Museum Amsterdam (SAMA)
Connecting privacy and art in a project that aims to raise awareness among neighborhood residents is unique and pleasantly surprised the jury. With its Privacy Project, SAMA allows such themes as privacy, digital rights, anonymity on the internet and the impact of technology on society to capture the imagination. More than 80 artists were invited to create a design for a mural, and out of their designs three were chosen to actually be produced on the streets. Local residents were involved in the choice for the design through voting.
Offering critical reflections through their art, artists encouraged residents to think about the issue of privacy. Raising awareness was in fact one of the main goals of this project. For SAMA, the project was a new adventure that saw murals being created in three vulnerable districts in Amsterdam: Nieuw-West, Noord and Zuidoost.
The jury believes that this project shows that graffiti-art murals can help raise awareness among residents about privacy issues. The whole process whereby residents think about both these issues as well as the realization of the murals equally contributes to give meaning to an abstract concept like privacy.
The jury expresses the wish that this project will be replicated in many other cities and especially in vulnerable neighborhoods where residents are still insufficiently aware of what happens to their personal data, and how important it is to be able to make choices about who you share these data with.
WINNER Business solutions: Quodari
Quodari is a privacy-friendly social media platform that puts users in control of their own data and content. It enables users to share collections of data online with friends, but also to make these data public. Taking European values as point of departure, Quodari aims to be a privacy-friendly alternative to existing social media platforms. Quodari’s business model is based on providing true value for users through additional storage space and other features for business or personal use. Quodari does not aim to attract users to its platform for as long as possible, does not exploit personal data and is free of advertising. In this way, privacy risks on the platform are reduced and financial conflicts of interest are avoided. Quodari is a Dutch initiative launched in 2021. The company expects a European rollout as well as the start to a new marketing campaign this year.
In the jury’s opinion, Quodari is a successful attempt to provide an alternative to existing social media platforms, where privacy is paramount and users truly control their own data. With Quodari, users who attach great importance to their privacy have a fair alternative to what Big Tech has to offer. That was the primary reason for the jury to grant Quodari a Dutch Privacy Award.
WINNER Public services: Summitto
Summitto develops software for tax authorities to combat VAT fraud. Whereas existing solutions collect massive amounts of data that are often stored in plain text in a centralized way, this solution ensures that VAT fraud can be fought without actually storing data. Summitto’s method is based on modern cryptography to optimally protect invoicing. The product is a commercial off-the-shelf product that is open-source and can help tax authorities digitize VAT in a privacy-friendly way. Summitto has received grants from Horizon 2020, the EU program for research and innovation. The company is in close contact with a number of key players which in one way or another deal with VAT, including the European Commission, various government bodies and the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD).
With its original approach, Summitto links the social importance of combating VAT fraud with high privacy values. The approach has drawn a lot of attention from experts throughout Europe. The jury is impressed with the practical applicability of the software in combination with its high privacy standards and has therefore declared Summitto the winner in the public services category.
WINNER Incentive Award: Centrum Informatiebeveiliging en Privacybescherming (CIP)
This year, the jury chose to present the Incentive Award to the Dutch Center for Information Security and Privacy Protection (CIP).
In spite of the pandemic, CIP has over the past year made a tremendous effort to keep its network updated through digital webinars, podcasts, workshops and games that span a range of topics. The center has built up a remarkable database of videos that are accessible to everyone on YouTube. Privacy is an important topic for CIP: up until now it has made public 22 different sorts of productions on this issue.
CIP is a public-private network organization that operates on the basis of the principle "for all, by all". It is made up of a team of passionate professionals who work together with the members of the network and its partners on practical and usable products in the field of privacy protection, ethics and information security. CIP is also on top of the news and is constantly coming up with new hot topics that are proposed by its participants and partners.
The jury expresses its great appreciation for the achievements of CIP and encourages the center to continue with the important work it is doing. Not least because the results of this work are freely accessible to public authorities, industry, organizations and citizens.
National Privacy Conference
The Dutch National Privacy Conference is a ECP|Platform for the Information Society and Privacy First initiative. Once a year, the conference brings together Dutch industry, public authorities, the academic community and civil society with the aim to build a privacy-friendly information society. The mission of both the National Privacy Conference and Privacy First is to turn the Netherlands into a guiding nation in the field of privacy. To this end, privacy by design is key.
These were the speakers during the 2022 National Privacy Conference in successive order:
Marjolijn Bonthuis (ECP deputy director)
Monique Verdier (Dutch Data Protection Authority vice chairwoman)
Martin Vliem (National Security Officer, Microsoft)
Max Schrems (founder of None of Your Business - NOYB)
Haroon Sheikh (senior scientist, Dutch Advisory Council on Government Policy, WRR)
Gry Hasselbalch (cofounder of European ThinkDoTank DataEthics)
Paul Korremans (Privacy First chairman)
Wilmar Hendriks (chairman of the expert panel of the Dutch Privacy Awards).
Both the conference as well as the Awards session – which were livestreamed from Nieuwspoort in The Hague: https://www.nieuwspoort.nl/stream/privacy-first-ecp/ – were moderated by Dutch television host Tom Jessen.
Expert panel Dutch Privacy Awards
The independent expert Award panel consists of privacy experts from different fields, all of whom participated in their personal capacity:
- Wilmar Hendriks, founder of Control Privacy, chairman of CUIC and Privacy First board member (panel chairman)
- Paul Korremans (Privacy First chairman)
- Melanie Rieback, CEO and cofounder of Radically Open Security
- Nico Mookhoek, legal expert in the field of privacy and founder of DePrivacyGuru
- Rion Rijker, privacy and IT security expert, partner at Fresa Consulting
- Magdalena Magala, privacy officer at the municipality of Zaanstad
- Mathieu Paapst, university lecturer IT law at the University of Groningen and projectlead of cookiedatabase.org
- Jaap van der Wel, IT expert and legal expert in the field of privacy, managing partner at Comfort Information Architects
- Erik Bruinsma, legal expert; director Strategy and management advice, Statistics Netherlands (CBS).
In order to make sure that the Award process is run objectively, panel members may not judge on any entry from their own organization or an organization in which a panel member has an interest.
In collaboration with the Dutch Platform for the Information Society (ECP), Privacy First organizes the Dutch Privacy Awards with the support of the Democracy & Media Foundation and The Privacy Factory.
Preregistrations for the 2023 Dutch Privacy Awards are welcome!
Would you like to become a sponsor or (media) partner of the Dutch Privacy Awards? Then please get in touch with Privacy First!
