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On 17 September, Bitkom will host the 5th Privacy Conference. In advance of the conference we are talking with some speakers about current privacy issues, the impact of the GDPR and their expectations to the #pco19. Today in the interview: Dr Carlo Piltz, Salary Partner, Team Leader Cybersecurity & Data Protection at reuschlaw Legal Consultants

The Bundestag recently passed the second Data Protection Adaptation and Implementation Act, according to which companies with fewer than 20 employees will no longer be obliged to establish a data protection officer. Bitkom comments on the adaptation of data protection law.

Since the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation, companies have had to increasingly deal with new data protection rules. Often there is a lack of suitable staff.

The basic EU data protection regulation has been in force for almost a year. Companies and organisations have extended information duties, have to create processing directories for personal data and already take data protection into account in production processes. From the point of view of the digital association Bitkom, the GDPR has had positive effects, but there is still a great need for improvement.