To act as the supervisory data authority in Iceland.
Name in original language
Persónuvernd
Initiative overview
To be determined
Name of responsible organisation (in English)
The Data Protection Authority (DPA)
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Data Protection Authority
National contact point
09 Jul 2025
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09 Jul 2025
About the policy initiative
Organisation:
- The Data Protection Authority (DPA)
Category:
- National – AI governance bodies or mechanisms
Initiative type:
- Oversight bodies, offices or processes
Status:
- Active
Start Year:
- 2018
Target Sectors:
Other relevant urls:
—Official PDF:
Iceland's AI Strategy (Forthcoming)
A prioritized list of actions for Iceland to meet the societal and economic changes brought by new technology, specifically AI.
Start year: 2021
Country/Organisation: Iceland
Declaration on AI in the Nordic-baltic Region
Collaboration on:1. Improving opportunities for skills development.2. Enhancing access to data.3. Developing ethical and transparent guidelines, standards, principles, and values.4. Developing standards for hardware and software that enable privacy, security, and trust.5. Ensuring AI gets a prominent role in European discussions of the Digital Single Market.6. Avoiding unnecessary regulations.7. Using the Nordic Council of Ministries to facilitate policy co-operation.
Start year: 2018
Country/Organisation: Iceland