Responding to GDPR pushback: The business case for compliance

Although there have been numerous warnings about the EU General Data Protection Regulation in news coverage, regulatory alerts, and marketing information over the past few years, at less than three months from implementation, many privacy professionals are still struggling with convincing their organization’s leadership to invest the necessary time and resources required to attain GDPR compliance.

With other initiatives and regulatory requirements competing for executive attention (and accompanying resources), it’s unsurprising that a yet-to-be-enforced — and, for many organizations, “foreign” — regulation would be placed far down on the “to-do” list or get set aside altogether while the organization takes a “wait-and-see” approach.

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