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Bitkom welcomes the opportunity to comment on the European Data Protection Board’s (EDPB) draft Guidelines on the interplay of the Second Payment Services Directive and the GDPR (EDPB Guidelines). We believe that more cooperation and exchange between data protection authorities and practitioners is needed to translate the legal text of the GDPR into practice and reduce legal uncertainty, especially in the context of the interplay with the Second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) as well as with other legislation.

The Federal Data Protection Commissioner demanded corrections to the Patient Data Protection Act on Wednesday. Bitkom CEO Dr. Bernhard Rohleder answers.

In its ruling today, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has declared the so-called Privacy Shield, which regulates the exchange of data between the EU and the USA, to be invalid. It also ruled that data exchange with non-EU countries on the basis of the so-called standard contractual clauses is legal, but must be examined on a case-by-case basis.

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.