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At its fourth Privacy Conference on 27 September in Berlin Mitte, Bitkom brings together more than 300 data protection experts from Europe and the USA.

One day before the Privacy Conference 2018, the first Privacy Week Berlin will start under the motto "Personal Data in the Digital Age". From 26 September to 3 October, the Privacy Week Berlin will bring together under its roof numerous events on the subject of privacy, which will be offered by actors from science + research, politics and civil society, art and culture as well as business.

The implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation(GDPR) has been a challenge for many German companies. According to a survey by the digital association Bitkom, three out of four companies in Germany missed the deadline of May 25, 2018.

Good job prospects for data protection experts: they are currently in greater demand on the labour market than ever before. For example, six out of ten companies (61 percent) in Germany report that recruiting data protection experts is very difficult. A similar number of companies (57 percent) say: The market for data protection personnel is almost empty. This is the result of a representative survey of more than 500 companies commissioned by the Bitkom digital association.

In it's Bitkom Trusted List, Germany's Digital association Bitkom lists all Bitkom members that have been designated as qualified trusted service providers in accordance with the European eIDAS Regulation, sorted by the services offered.