Earlier this year, an IAPP study conservatively estimated that, once the EU's General Data Protection Regulation takes effect, at least 28,000 DPOs will be needed in Europe and the United States alone. Now, in a study released here at the IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress in Brussels, IAPP Research Director Rita Heimes and IAPP Publications Director Sam Pfeifle apply a similar methodology to estimate that as many as 75,000 DPO positions will be created in response to the GDPR around the globe. See the country-by-country breakdown and look through the methodology in this exclusive for The Privacy Advisor. 
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