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The outbreak of the novel coronavirus raises many questions. We, as organisers of various events, are also receiving an increasing number of enquiries. Due to the dynamic developments, we are constantly monitoring and evaluating the situation.

We have compiled the answers to the most frequently asked questions. Of course, we will inform you immediately if the situation affects the Privacy Conference 2020.

With the GDPR, data privacy is crucial for sustainable innovations in industry and society. With this important shift in the data protection framework also people’s view on privacy changed. But not only regulatory data protection affairs are urging right now. New technologies promise enormous opportunities. We will examine and discuss all these aspects and challenges together. Save the Date and be there too!

About 300 international data protection experts from businesses, society, supervisory authorities and politics followed exciting keynote speeches and interesting panel discussions at the 5th Bitkom Privacy Conference in Berlin on 17 September 2019. One of the undisputed highlights was certainly the Legal Live Hack. In the interactive forum of the Legal Live Hack, previously submitted questions from businesses and industry were answered live on stage at #pco19 by experienced data protection experts.

Since May 2018, the EU General Data Protection Regulation has been fully applied. For the first time, it was possible to introduce EU-wide, uniform regulations on data protection with international appeal. Since then, both international trading partners and global companies have oriented themselves towards the GDPR. At the same time, many companies are still uncertain about the correct implementation of the new data protection laws.