Nominees Dutch Privacy Awards 2025 announced!

Nominees

This year, a large number of organisations once again applied with high-quality entries to participate in the Dutch Privacy Awards. After recent pitches and Q&A sessions, the independent expert jury determined the following nominees, in no particular order:

Municipality of Rotterdam in collaboration with Roseman Labs

The City of Rotterdam is committed to reducing developmental delays among two- and three-year-old toddlers. Research shows that these arrears are hardly caught up in primary education. More than 1,200 toddlers do not participate in pre-school education. It is up to the municipality and its partners (including the Centre for Youth and Family) to gain insight into the problem and adjust quickly.

With the encryption technology of Roseman Labs allows datasets from more than 100 nurseries to be securely linked and analysed without revealing the raw data.

The collaboration between the Municipality of Rotterdam, Roseman Labs, the Centre for Youth and Family and the day-care centres demonstrates that innovative privacy technologies can be used effectively to address societal challenges, while maintaining privacy protection.

The jury of the Dutch Privacy Awards therefore nominates the Municipality of Rotterdam and Roseman Labs for the Privacy Awards.

Municipality of Utrecht

The Municipality of Utrecht together with design agency Patroon Legal Design and law firm De Roos, has taken a big step in making the processes whereby the municipality processes citizens' personal data - and there are many! First, the most important processing operations for citizens were analysed. This involved looking at the sensitivity of the data, the impact of the processing and also how often questions were asked or the register consulted about the processing in the past. Then, a very appealing design was designed in which each citizen's interaction with the municipality is made visible separately. This allows a citizen to quickly find their way around. Attention was also paid to accessible language and testing with citizen panels during the design phase, which in turn led to adjustments.

The insight offered to citizens and the scalability of this concept appeal to the jury: other municipalities can follow this example, which will help citizens gain quick and accessible insight into what is happening with their data.

The jury of the Dutch Privacy Awards therefore nominates the municipality of Utrecht for the Privacy Awards.

Philosophy in action

The training 'Data Ethics Discussion Leader training course' from Philosophy in action deals with the ethical aspects of the use/processing/application of data (and therefore personal data). In the course, privacy is considered more broadly than just legal. Privacy is considered an important 'value' for the organisation and, of course, the data subjects. With this training, Privacy Professionals, including FGs and POs, learn to put themselves in other perspectives and arrive at constructive discussions with other disciplines.

The jury of the Dutch Privacy Awards believes that this course fills a gap in the proper focus on privacy protection within organisations. Privacy as a value and the related constructive discussions between all relevant disciplines increases support and contributes to creativity of solutions.

The jury of the Dutch Privacy Awards therefore nominates Philosophy in Action for the Privacy Awards.

Project GERDA

With project GERDA since 2022, healthcare institutions in the Achterhoek region have been sharing their production data to analyse the functioning of healthcare processes. This provides insight for taking effective improvement measures. By the end of 2024, hospital, GPs, elderly care, GGZ, GGD and municipalities will be connected.

An important role in the project is played by the company's software Linksight.

The jury of the Dutch Privacy Awards considers this an interesting development that promotes quality of care. GERDA's representatives report an interplay of privacy-enhancing measures such as anonymising data, not allowing analyses with too small a data set, and contractual agreements based on risk analyses.

The jury of the Dutch Privacy Awards therefore nominates the GERDA project for the Privacy Awards.

PrivacyDetect by Watchful

PrivacyDetect is a scanner for redundant personal data that may be hidden in company records in all kinds of CVs, copies of passports, e-mails and so on. Superfluous personal data might include double storage of personal data or personal data after the retention period has expired. Employees are informed of the scan results with the responsibility of individual employees being the starting point. With Watchful, PrivacyDetect targets small and medium-sized enterprises and therefore keeps the product affordable compared to alternatives and pays attention to encouraging behavioural change.

The jury of the Dutch Privacy Awards believes that Watchful can make a substantial and practical contribution to the privacy improvement of corporate records and therefore nominates Watchful for the Privacy Awards.

Autoscriber

Autoscriber is a software solution that allows medical professionals to record the consultation. The artificial intelligence in the software understands what is being discussed and automatically prepares a medical report. This saves the doctor time and benefits the doctor-patient conversation. The software is deployed by dozens of healthcare institutions and is currently being integrated with the largest electronic patient records in the Netherlands. Great attention is paid to privacy protection, such as deleting the recorded conversation as soon as the doctor has approved the proposed text.

Artifical intelligence can be a threat to privacy. The jury of the Dutch Privacy Awards finds that Autoscriber's approach shows that the developers are aware of this and act accordingly.

The jury of the Dutch Privacy Awards therefore nominates Autoscriber for the Privacy Awards.

Jury Dutch Privacy Awards

The Awards jury consists of independent privacy experts from various sectors, in their personal capacity:

• Jaap van der Wel
  IT expert and privacy lawyer, managing partner Comfort Information Architects (jury chairman)
• Mabel de Vries
  Data protection officer and senior information security, risk and privacy advisor
• Magdalena Magala
  Specialist coordinator AVG, Tax Office
• Rion Rijker
  Privacy and information security expert and IT lawyer, Rijker Advies & Educatie
• Walter van Wijk
  Community manager privacy, Centre for Information Security and Privacy Protection
• Sanne van de Velde
  Head of department General Administrative-Legal Affairs, Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management
• Koen Versmissen
  Owner Expertise Centre for Data Ethics
• Marie-José Bonthuis
  Data protection officer, IT & Privacy Lawyer
• Marlon Domingus
  Data protection officer, Erasmus University Rotterdam
• Friederike van der Jagt
  Owner and attorney Hunter Legal.

Awards ceremony

During the National Privacy Conference on 28 January next (European Privacy Day), all nominated projects will be presented to the public by the entrants. Subsequently, the Dutch Privacy Awards can be presented in the following categories: 1) Technology (from companies for consumers), 2) Application (within an organisation or business-to-business) and 3) Awareness raising (government, healthcare and education). There is also the possibility of an Incentive Award.

Privacy First Foundation organises the Dutch Privacy Awards in association with ECP, with support from Molenaar & Plasman Solutions and The DPO Centre. Media partner is PONT Data & Privacy.