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Cross-border data flows between the U.S. and Europe are the largest in the world and are fundamental to the largest trading relationship in the world, valued at approximately 1.3 trillion U.S. dollars annually. Transatlantic data flows account for over one-half of Europe’s data flows and about half of U.S. data flows.

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.