[3] Following his re-election in 2014, supported by his party by an historical high nomination result of 97.38%, Albrecht was appointed Vice Chair of the LIBE committee.

In this capacity, he led an important delegation of the European Parliament to the U.S. Congress in spring 2015 on the issue of Mass surveillance, privacy and data protection.

In March 2018, Albrecht was appointed the successor of Robert Habeck, who concurrently holds the position of chairman of the Green Party, as State Minister for Energy, Agriculture, Environment and Digitization in the government of Minister-President Daniel Günther.

In January 2013, Albrecht introduced a bill proposing to create a new agency to enforce a series of measures giving Internet users greater control of their online information.

If approved, the proposal would have replaced the Article 29 Working Party, an advisory panel to the European Commission, with a regulator with the power to make decisions for the EU member states and levy fines of up to 2 percent of a company's revenue.

[9] In October 2013 Albrecht's proposal for the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was adopted by the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs with a broad majority of all political groups.

[11] Albrecht was rapporteur of the LIBE committee on the envisaged trade deals TTIP and TiSA where he demands a horizontal clause to except privacy and data protection rules on the basis of Article XIV of the GATS treaty.

In December 2013, Albrecht arranged with Snowden's lawyers for the international fugitive to give testimony through a pre-recorded video, responding to question submitted in advance by MEPs.