Re:Ask HN: Business opportunities for GDPR
by Bumerang on Friday December 08, 2017 @06:11AM
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Speaking from experience -- GDPR is a huge issue basically for everyone in the Financial sector (banks, insurance, etc.) and projects to address that started two years or one year ago. Now they are usually rolling their solution into production.
Our company is doing several GDPR consulting projects, with final delivery date around March. The interest from the companies on GDPR consulting has really decreased in the past months.
As an individual, you may consider a DPO (Data Protection Officer) role for several companies -- these are usually too small to have a dedicated person, but they need it according to GDPR. No formal education or certificates required, however you do need to know the law and technical things on a reasonable level.
Re:Ask HN: Business opportunities for GDPR
by a_imho on Thursday December 07, 2017 @04:55AM
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it depends on how serious companies will take the regulation and how strict it will be enforced by the regulator
Indeed, hopefully it won't be another cookie law, this time notifying users they need to forfeit their rights granted by the GDPR to access the site.
I guess, first of all, it depends on how serious companies will take the regulation and how strict it will be enforced by the regulator. Will we see headlines about penalties next year?
I expect consulting need for DevOps/security/law. Companies that already help out with HIPAA and the like are probably in the best position.