BRUSSELS—Well, compliance officers, for all the years of frustration you’ve endured struggling with anti-corruption programs, I have good news from last week’s Compliance Week Europe conference: that experience will give you a superb grounding for the years of frustration coming next with privacy programs.
Time and again during our Europe conference, issues of privacy streaked across the conversational stage. Of course, that’s to be expected: Europeans have long taken personal privacy more seriously than Americans do, and the European Union is in the throes a major overhaul to privacy law by next spring. Edward Snowden’s news earlier this summer that the National Security Agency has been spying on pretty much everyone only accelerated that push to put more bite into privacy law.
