As we wrap up 2017, it's worth looking back at what has been a very busy year for privacy pros. Top of mind, of course, is the nearly universal effort by organizations to ramp up for the EU General Data Protection Regulation. The forthcoming regulation has also been a boon to the privacy technology industry, something we at the IAPP have tracked closely with our Privacy Tech Vendor Report. But not everything in 2017 was GDPR. The role Brexit will play in U.K. privacy law and the deregulatory efforts of the Trump administration have prompted a paradigm shift in 2017. And who could forget the fallout from the Equifax and Uber breaches? In this post for Privacy Perspectives, Jedidiah Bracy, CIPP, looks back at this frenetic year in privacy. 
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