Category Archives: News

The Commissioner for Information and Privacy, Mrs. Sogojeva Dërmaku holds an Informative Lecture on the Rights to Information and Privacy at the Kosovo Academy for Public Safety

The Commissioner for Information and Privacy, Mrs. Sogojeva Dërmaku holds an Informative Lecture on the Rights to Information and Privacy at the Kosovo Academy for Public Safety The Commissioner for Information and Privacy in the framework of fulfilling the mission of the Agency for Information and Privacy, today held a lecture at the Kosovo Academy […]

Information Roundtable is held with the Officials of the Municipality of Rahovec

Rahovec, 4 May 2022   At the request of the Municipality of Rahovec and with the support of the OSCE Department for Democratization, the Agency for Information and Privacy conducted an information lecture for the municipality’s staff regarding the review of requests for access to public documents. On behalf of the Agency for Information and […]

Heads of Institutions from Kosovo and Albania sign the Cooperation Agreement on Freedom of Information and Protection of Personal Data

Heads of Institutions from Kosovo and Albania sign the Cooperation Agreement on Freedom of Information and Protection of Personal Data   22nd April 2022, Prishtina The Commissioner of the Kosovo Information and Privacy Agency, Mrs. Krenare Sogojeva Dërmaku, has signed a Cooperation Agreement with the Commissioner for the Right to Information and Personal Data Protection […]

The Commissioner for Information and Privacy, Krenare Sogojeva Dërmaku, was hosted in a meeting by the Deputy Speaker of the Albanian Parliament, Mrs. Ermonela Felaj.

The Commissioner for Information and Privacy, Krenare Sogojeva Dërmaku, was hosted in a meeting by the Deputy Speaker of the Albanian Parliament, Mrs. Ermonela Felaj. April 22, 2022, Prishtina During the visit to Albania, the Commissioner for Information and Privacy, Krenare Sogojeva Dërmaku, was hosted in a meeting by the Deputy Speaker of the Assembly, […]

THE LEGALITY OF ESTABLISHING THE CAMERA SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM PROTECTS THE PRIVACY OF CITIZENS

Prishtina, 08 April 2022, The Information and Privacy Agency (IPA) in the framework of overseeing the implementation of Law no. 06 / L-082 on Personal Data Protection, has continued the inspection ex officio of the controller (16 businesses), regarding the legality of the processing of personal data through the camera surveillance system. During the inspection […]

THE INFORMATION AND PRIVACY FINES THE MUNICIPALITY OF PODUJEVA FOR ILLEGAL PERSONAL DATA PROCESSING

Prishtina, March 24, 2022,   The Agency for Information and Privacy (IPA), on 10.03.2022, has received information that the Municipality of Podujeva has published for a long time lists of personal data of data subjects (citizens), who have received subsidies, covering the period from 2017 to 2022, on its official website (internet).   After the […]

The Commissioner for Information and Privacy meets the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Sweden in Kosovo

23st March 2022, Pristina Today the Commissioner for Information and Privacy, Mrs. Krenare Sogojeva Dërmaku, welcomed the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Sweden in Kosovo, Her Excellency Mrs. Karin Hernmarck Ahliny, with whom they discussed issues of mutual cooperation. The Commissioner informed the Ambassador about the role of the Agency for Information and Privacy in […]

THE INFORMATION AND PRIVACY AGENCY (IPA) AND THE ANTI-CORRUPTION AGENCY (ACA) ARE COMMITTED TO COOPERATING IN GUARANTEEING THE RIGHT OF CITIZENS TO INFORMATION AND PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA

21st March 2022, Pristina   The Commissioner for Information and Privacy, Mrs. Krenare Sogojeva Dermaku, hosted a meeting with the Director of the Anti-Corruption Agency, Mr. Yll Buleshkaj, to discuss the possibility of cooperation between AIP and ACA, in increasing transparency and accountability of public institutions while preventing and combating corruption. The Commissioner informed the Director of […]

The agency bans camera surveillance of businesses in Pristina

18 March 2022, Pristina   The Information and Privacy Agency (IPA), in the framework of overseeing the implementation of Law no. 06 / L-082 on Personal Data Protection, has conducted ex officio inspections of a large number of controllers, 59 businesses, regarding the legitimacy of the processing of personal data, through the camera surveillance system. […]

The implentation of the Law on Acces to Public documents for the year 2021 – The report of public institutions in the Information and Privacy Agency

Pursuant to the Law on 06 / L-081 on Access to Public Documents and in order to ensure full transparency of work, public institutions are obliged to provide the Agency for Information and Privacy an annual report including the number of cases, in which the public institution has granted access, the number of cases in […]