One year on from GDPR enactment and the market has stabilised. The panic of 2018 settled down in 2019. So much so that consulting friends of mine in UK, Ireland, Denmark and Sweden have commented to me that there is less demand for pure privacy/GDPR consulting as in-house competences have matured. This is how it should be in order to achieve ‘data protection by design by default’ across every business function.
In Sweden it has become very laid back after a frenzied panic of 2018. No fines yet, although the Datainspektion is promising us some action during the next 12 months. Seeing is believing I say and the latest news on Klarna may change this. The Datainspektion needs to make an example of some organisation which is not compliant, and soon, or they will not be taken seriously. The latest news on fines has been in Denmark, to a taxi company. Each Supervisory Authority is accountable to enforcement of the GDPR for their respective countries. If they do not then they need to answer to the EU level… even they could be penalised, yes Datainspektion can be penalised!
What’s cool is how the businesses are on the road seem to understanding that GDPR is not a pure legal problem, it is the whole business, and as such engagement of privacy champions across every business function is happening which I find very exciting. In fact the more employees who get what this is about, the more likely it is that the organisation will succeed without feeling that it inhibits innovation, in fact quite the opposite!
If you want to get privacy champions in your organisation engaged at the right level, you can’t do much wrong to enroll them for the Privasee EAGLE online training, costs only €285 and it’s on a gamification platform so its actually fun!! Some of the larger organisations I’ve worked with have 100 spread out across every business function. IMHO every business should have at least one, if they have 5+ employees.
Sorry for the marketing plug here.. but Privasee needs to start making money on its products, and every training we sell helps us to continue the good work.. now we are challenged with cashflow during summer months…I’m a great privacy advocate and innovator but not interested in money per se. I wish I was then we wouldn’t have cashflow challenges.
If you love what we do, please either buy or recommend an EAGLE and get your privacy champions engaged in time for Autumn. Those who have done the training love it! If you do this please Comment or send a message so we can be sure to send a thank you token direct! If you want to resell Privacy products, we want to hear from you, unfortunately our ‘go-to-market’ sucks, reminding me of Novell who I worked for 7 years. We need to sell 100 EAGLEs to be flying again, if we sell 200 maybe I’ll be able to treat myself to haircut and a new pair of jeans 🙂
THANK YOU.