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Today the Federal Cabinet intends to pass a bill to amend the constitution protection law to combat legal terrorism and extremism. The digital association Bitkom warns against weakening the security of telecommunications networks in the course of the planned changes. According to the Federal Ministry of the Interior's draft, telecommunications providers will in future be obliged to actively support security authorities in uploading malicious programs into the terminals of suspected targets via their networks.

The 6th Bitkom Privacy Conference will be held online! On 28 & 29 September 2020 we will bring together leading data protection experts and international decision makers from regulatory authorities, politics and business for the first time digitally. Be there to discuss current data protection issues and the latest developments on new tech trends with us!

• Almost 90 percent would make health data available for private research
• Bundestag passes Patient Data Protection Act

Today, Friday, the Bundestag passes the Patient Data Protection Act (PDSG). This not only creates a binding legal framework for electronic patient files, e-prescription or digital referrals to specialists, but also paves the way for data donation: from 2023 onwards, patients can voluntarily make their data stored in the electronic patient file available to medical research using pseudonyms.

The EU Commission today presented its regular evaluation report on the basic data protection regulation, which officially came into force four years ago.