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Two days full of exciting content, input from almost 50 international speakers and a wide-ranging programme that covered current data protection issues and the evaluation of recent tech trends equally ensured that the Privacy Conference 2020 was a great success. Over 1,000 participants followed the first purely digital Privacy Conference 2020.

In 2020, the Privacy Conference took place purely virtually for the first time. On the first day of the conference alone, #pco20 was able to attract more than 500 active users on the event platform to its programme. With exciting talks by high-level speakers and lively discussions, the kick-off had already been a success.

Recently, the EU published the EU Data Strategy and invited stakeholders for feedback. We welcome this opportunity and the consultation for the Data Strategy and support the idea that the European Union needs an overarching data strategy in order to achieve the benefits of the Single Market and avoid fragmentation.

Bitkom welcomes the opportunity to comment on the European Data Protection Board’s (EDPB) draft Guidelines on the interplay of the Second Payment Services Directive and the GDPR (EDPB Guidelines). We believe that more cooperation and exchange between data protection authorities and practitioners is needed to translate the legal text of the GDPR into practice and reduce legal uncertainty, especially in the context of the interplay with the Second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) as well as with other legislation.