Legal professionals and privacy regulations: 2019 End of the Year Survey
Highlights
Of the 41% of the respondents that indicated they collect any kind of personal data on citizen in the EU, only 69% state they are currently compliant with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation.
40% of companies that conduct business with California consumers or businesses did not yet performed a data protection impact analysis.
Almost half of the respondents (46%) use a combination of manual and technological solutions. 20% still has only manual processes in place.
Respondents give their current eDiscovery a 3.8 (out of 5).
Management of data privacy requests still: 12% sees responding to requests as biggest challenge for readiness to privacy regulations.
21% of the respondents spent over $100,000 to prepare for data privacy regulations and 21% plans to hire more personnel to manage privacy issues.