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The EU Commission is presenting new standard data protection clauses to make international data transfers more legally secure. The background to this is the ruling of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) from the summer of 2020, which declared the so-called Privacy Shield, which regulated the exchange of data between the EU and the USA, invalid and which established additional requirements for international data transfers.

If done right, the European Commission’s initial proposal on the Data Governance Act (DGA) has the potential to be an important step towards a European data economy. While previous discussions about the use of data have focused primarily on the important topic of data protection, there is an increasing awareness for the innovative potential of data, which is why we welcome that the DGA addresses all types of data (personal, non-personal, government sector and specific data sets).

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.