Though the EU General Data Protection Regulation implementation date is just months away, "many privacy professionals are still struggling with convincing their organization's leadership to invest the necessary time and resources required to attain GDPR compliance," write Maynard, Cooper & Gale's Starr Drum, CIPP/E, CIPM, WIDA's John Krogulski, and Cognizant Technology's Cassandra Porter, CIPP/US, CIPM, FIP. They note, that with other competing regulations, "it's unsurprising that a yet-to-be-enforced — and, for many organizations, 'foreign' — regulation would be placed far down on the 'to-do' list or get set aside altogether while the organization takes a 'wait-and-see' approach." In this post for Privacy Perspectives, Drum, Krogulski and Porter offer up "three common arguments and proposed suggestions to convince naysayers that proactive preparation" will ultimately benefit the organization and bolster consumer trust. 
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