In defence of the new privacy experts
The growth in importance of privacy and data protection we have seen in recent years, which in Europe appears to be heading towards its climax as we approach the GDPR’s deadline date, has created a very fertile ground for ‘privacy experts’. They are everywhere: e-mailing you offers for their much-needed services, twitting incessantly as if the world was about to end and popping up in every possible corner of your LinkedIn feed. The noise that the new privacy experts are making seems truly deafening and dangerously hyped.