The focus on requirements, like informed consent and data subject rights and the visibility around high-profile data breaches, has created a new collective consciousness that has real concerns with how personal data is being collected, used, shared, and protected, particularly by governments and larger organizations. These new citizen, consumer, and partner demands, combined with a better understanding by governments of the value of personal data as a national asset, has seen a tidal wave of GDPR-inspired regulations implemented (or planned) across the world.

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