VentureBeat January 3, 2023
As someone who spends their workdays — and more than a few work nights — talking to executives about their most pressing data security concerns, I found that regulatory compliance became the most popular topic of conversation in 2022. But while compliance is a hot topic, it’s certainly not new. If I were to pinpoint when compliance discussions occurred with growing frequency, I would say it was after the adoption of the EU’s GDPR in 2018 — the most aggressive and widest-reaching data privacy regulation to date.
While GDPR may have introduced the conversation, the numerous data privacy laws that have followed (more on that later) have elevated it to ubiquity. What is notable is how the focus of these...