The Data Commissioner @ikassait participated in a plenary session on Data Protection in Humanitarian Action at the Privacy Symposium Conference 2024 @PrivSymposium in Venice, Italy. She was joined by other panelists, including Catherine Lennman and Florence Dubosc, her counterparts from Switzerland and Monaco, Alex Novikao from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and Carmen Casado and Vincent Graf Narbel from the World Food Programme and the International Committee of the Red Cross, respectively. In her remarks, the Data Commissioner urged humanitarian organizations to prioritize safeguarding the dignity of data subjects during their day-to-day operations, ensuring that data subjects feel safe even while receiving humanitarian aid. With the enactment of regulatory frameworks across the globe, the Data Commissioner implored humanitarian practitioners to consider accountability and fairness by informing data subjects about the purpose of data collection and limiting the use of their data. "At the center of this conversation is the right of the data subject - it is no longer business as usual, there is a serious shift in the current landscape where data subjects own the information and have the power to decide how it will be used," she said. #privacysymposium