JOIC proud to attend BIIDPA Guernsey 2025

The Jersey Office of the Information Commissioner (JOIC) was proud to attend the British, Irish and Islands Data Protection Authorities (BIIDPA) annual meeting from 25 to 26 June 2025.

Hosted this year by Guernsey’s Office of the Data Protection Authority (ODPA), BIIDPA brings together data protection authorities whose separate regulatory regimes have close affinities. It aims to promote practical supervisory consistency, advancing and protecting data rights of people and enabling responsible innovation, both within and across their jurisdictions.

JOIC Compliance and Enforcement Manager Stephanie MacNeill notes that the approaches to compassionate enforcement amongst jurisdictions served as insightful basis of debate. 

Over the two days of meetings, BIIDPA delegates exchanged ideas, experiences and strategies about the following data protection issues, common across jurisdictions: 

• The promotion and protection of children’s privacy rights
• Leveraging international cooperation to expand collective capacity to promote and protect data rights
• How tech innovation can only succeed and endure when driven by strong data protection practices
• The importance of data protection in supporting healthy and progressive global financial sector jurisdictions
• How modern enforcement approaches must take many forms to be proportionate, expedient and effective in protecting data rights 

This opportunity to understand others’ activities allows delegates to bring back to their jurisdictions successful strategies that can be built into their processes to the benefit of their regulated communities and citizens alike. 

JOIC Operations Director Anne King said the appetite for collaboration in both enforcement and innovative projects is very welcoming. 

The BIIDPA Guernsey 2025 attendees were as follows: 

• The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Bermuda
• The Gibraltar Regulatory Authority
• Office of the Data Protection Authority, the Bailiwick of Guernsey
• Ireland’s Data Protection Commission
• The Information Commissioner for the Isle of Man
• The Jersey Office of the Information Commissioner
• The Information and Data Protection Commissioner for Malta
• The Information Commissioner’s Office for the United Kingdom