Overview
06 May 2026
The G7 data protection and privacy authorities are working together to identify common challenges and opportunities, to adapt flexibly to ongoing developments, and to implement coordinated regulatory approaches aimed, as far as possible, at ensuring consistency and legal certainty.
2026 Action Plan
To address global challenges relating to privacy protection, the 2026 G7 Data Protection and Privacy Authorities (DPA) Roundtable will be guided by three main pillars set out in the 2026 Action Plan:
Pillar 1 - Data Free Flow with Trust
Help foster secure, transparent and responsible exchange of personal data across borders.
Pillar 2 - Emerging Technologies
Promote the development and usage of emerging technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence, in ways that reinforce trust and respect privacy and personal data protection, with particular focus on the protection of minors.
Pillar 3 - Enforcement Cooperation
Expand collective enforcement capacity by identifying and overcoming legal and practical challenges and sharing knowledge and experiences.
Working groups
Since 2022, the G7 DPA Roundtable has established dedicated working groups to address global issues in data protection and privacy.
Data Free Flow with Trust
The Data Free Flow with Trust (DFFT) Working Group looks at existing regulatory approaches and data transfer tools to find ways to foster future interoperability.
The group is co-chaired by the Personal Information Protection Commissioner of Japan and the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of Germany.
Emerging Technologies
The Emerging Technologies Working Group (ETWG) promotes the development and usage of emerging technologies in ways that reinforce trust and privacy.
- Case study: G7 DPAs’ Emerging Technologies Working Group use case study on privacy enhancing technologies
- Statement on AI and Children
- Terminology paper: Reducing identifiability in cross-national perspective: Statutory and policy definitions for anonymization, pseudonymization, and de-identification in G7 jurisdictions
The group is chaired by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.
Enforcement Cooperation
The Enforcement Cooperation Working Group (ECWG) shares practices on data protection and privacy compliance and exchanges on overlapping enforcement priorities. They achieve this through dialogue and information sharing and through the promotion of bilateral or multilateral enforcement collaboration agreements.
- Reference documents: Promoting Enforcement Cooperation
The group is co-chaired by the Personal Information Protection Commissioner of Japan and the United States Federal Trade Commission.
