Nominees for the Dutch Privacy Awards 2026 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:

Publiosa 

Product: Registervanverwerkingen.nl 

Not all (semi-)governmental organisations publish their processing registers on the internet. And when they do, it is often in a format that is difficult to access and search. With Register of processing operations.nl late Publiosa see that there is room for improvement. Publiosa is not deterred and remains committed to transparency regarding the processing of personal data. The jury of the Dutch Privacy Awards has therefore nominated Publiosa for the Privacy Awards.

National Registration of Orthopaedic Interventions (LROI) in collaboration with Bluegen.ai 

Product: Artificial (synthetic) data from BlueGen.ai 

The National Registration of Orthopaedic Interventions (LROI) wishes to make its data on various orthopaedic treatments available for scientific research in a privacy-friendly manner. The LROI is therefore collaborating with Bluegen.ai which converts the pseudonymised data in the register into synthetic data. This makes the personal data used even less traceable, without compromising the validity of the research. The jury of the Dutch Privacy Awards appreciates the responsibility that the LROI feels for the personal data in its care and the course it has chosen to take. The jury therefore nominates the National Registry of Orthopaedic Interventions and Bluegen.ai for the Privacy Awards.

Incentive

Product: Stimulansz Privacy Quartet 

Incentive offers local authorities expertise in the social domain with practical training courses and advice. For its privacy awareness training courses, it has developed the Privacy Quartet. This super-simple intervention makes privacy literally tangible for participants, and the game format ensures that initial resistance disappears and participants are more open to taking privacy and the GDPR seriously. The jury of the Dutch Privacy Awards has therefore nominated Stimulansz for the Privacy Awards.

UMC Utrecht in collaboration with Roseman Labs 

Product: NSK data workshop 

The NSK (National Child Abuse Reporting Tool) data workshop offers a privacy by design solution to an urgent social challenge: the early detection of child abuse. By processing sensitive patient data exclusively in encrypted form using advanced cryptographic techniques, the data workshop enables hospitals to learn together and improve the quality of care without infringing on the privacy of children and families. The solution strengthens confidence in data-driven healthcare improvement by focusing on purpose limitation, consent and complete control for participating institutions.

In addition, the NSK data workshop stands out for its innovative, scalable and sustainable character. The technology of Roseman Labs enables in-depth analyses without access to traceable data and integrates seamlessly with existing research environments such as the Digital Research Environment (DRE). This allows healthcare institutions to collaborate independently and set up comparable data workshops within a few months. The application convincingly demonstrates that privacy protection and social impact can reinforce each other and serves as an inspiring example for secure and responsible data exchange within the future European Health Data Space.

The jury appreciates the combination of technical innovation, social relevance, practical applicability and exemplary value for other sectors that work with highly sensitive data. The jury of the Dutch Privacy Awards therefore nominates the NSK data workshop for the Privacy Awards.

Foundation for the Quality Mark for Journey Recording Systems 

Product: Quality Mark for Journey Recording Systems

The Quality Mark for Journey Recording Systems offers business drivers (approx. 250,000 of the total 1.12 million) independent and reliable mileage administration for the 500 km declaration. The foundation certifies approx. 80% of all suppliers on the market that meet the requirements of the Tax and Customs Administration and guarantee privacy protection. Private journey data is only accessible to the employee themselves via a “digital safe”, which means that employers have no insight into private journeys made with a business car.

The jury appreciates the practical implementation of privacy protection in a complex situation in which employers and employees must weigh up their interests. Companies (car manufacturers or car suppliers) can also benefit from the quality mark and thus link balanced privacy protection for consumers/users to their product as a USP. The jury of the Dutch Privacy Awards therefore nominates Stichting Keurmerk Ritregistratiesystemen for the Privacy Awards.

TNO

Product: GPT-EN 

GPT-EN is the first Dutch Large Language Model (LLM), developed by TNO with government funding. The model is trained on original, high-quality Dutch texts from government agencies, libraries and publishers, rather than on data randomly scraped from the internet. GPT-NL is the first LLM worldwide that demonstrably complies with the GDPR through radical privacy by designAll personal data relating to non-public individuals is systematically removed or anonymised in advance. In addition, GPT-NL is fully transparent (as the only provider worldwide) about training sources, respects copyrights, and has safeguards in place for its output to ensure privacy rights. With its unique licensing model, which fairly compensates content providers, GPT-NL is not only a figurehead for privacy by design but also for respectful and legally correct handling of copyrights and the intellectual property of content providers. The model is suitable for trust-critical applications in the public sector, education and healthcare sectors.

GPT-NL is the first to have achieved successful collaboration with all publishers for the LLM training data. GPT-NL's global impact is substantial at the crossroads where Europe must choose between Big Tech dependency or digital sovereignty and sovereign AIs. GPT-NL demonstrates that responsible, GDPR-compliant, copyright-correct and transparent LLM development is indeed possible. In its “Apply AI Strategy” (October 2025), the European Commission cites sovereign generative AI models as a fundamental factor of production for Europe. GPT-NL serves as a blueprint for the whole of Europe and the world. The degree of complete transparency of all relevant data enables other organisations to adopt this approach. In doing so, GPT-NL sets a new international standard for ethical, correct, transparent and compliant AI development.

The jury of the Dutch Privacy Awards has therefore nominated GPT-NL for the Privacy Awards.

Jury Dutch Privacy Awards

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

• Marlon Domingus  
  Data protection officer, Erasmus University Rotterdam
  (jury chairperson)
• Walter van Wijk
  Community manager privacy, Centre for Information Security and Privacy Protection (CIP)
• Koen Versmissen
  Owner Expertise Centre for Data Ethics
• Jaap-Henk Hoepman
  Associate Professor of Computer Science, Radboud University Nijmegen
• Lora Mourcous 
  Lawyer, The Data Lawyers
• Sulaika Duijsings-Mahangi 
  Chief Privacy Officer, Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management
• Sah Farooq
  Chief Privacy Officer & Manager of the Privacy Expertise Centre, Municipality of The Hague
• Jan Rinia
  Head of Unit Data Protection and Privacy, Ministry of Justice and Security

Awards ceremony

During the National Privacy Conference On 28 January (European Privacy Day), all nominated projects will be presented to the public by the entrants. The Dutch Privacy Awards can then 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 The DPO Centre. Media partner is PONT Data & Privacy. Would you like to become a sponsor of the Dutch Privacy Awards? Please contact Privacy First!

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