Volume: 9 Issue: 5
(May 2012)
Keywords:
editorial
future
privacy
not
long
ago
reading
article
(let
alone
writing
regarded
nerdy
data
protection
used
seen
arcane
irrelevant
Not that long ago, reading this article (let alone writing it) would have been regarded as nerdy. Data protection used to be seen as arcane and irrelevant to businesses and ordinary people. Introducing yourself as a data protection lawyer or a privacy professional was a recipe for embarrassment and a sure way of getting some funny looks.