The extraterritorial reach of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has put privacy on the business roadmap in Australia in a way that dwarfs the introduction of the notifiable data breach regime in February.
GDPR is bringing the risks of privacy to management and boardrooms with a new focus on data governance as privacy becomes mainstream and privacy risk becomes a central part of the business risk landscape.
Breaches continue on a daily basis and fines continue to be levied by a range of regulators.
While cyber breaches are part of the equation, human error continues as a key underlying cause of privacy breaches, and is the reason we think that 2019 will be a year in which GDPR becomes ubiquitous.
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