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Since the entry into force of the Basic Data Protection Regulation, companies have had to increasingly deal with new rules in data protection. Often there is a lack of suitable personnel. For example, almost every third company in Germany (31 percent) has currently only planned one full-time position for employees who mainly deal with data protection. This is the result of a representative company survey commissioned by the digital association Bitkom.

f you want to use Internet services, you often have to disclose personal data such as your e-mail address. Internet users increasingly see themselves as primarily responsible for the security of such data. Three out of four (74 percent) say: "I myself am responsible for protecting my personal data on the Internet.

Bitkom CEO Dr. Bernhard Rohleder explains the current theft of numerous private data from politicians and celebritie

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.