Once these 7 habits are in place for a highly effective privacy compliance program, the next challenge is to keep it current. Privacy compliance (and all of its elements) is a process that needs to be continuously managed in today’s distributed and dynamic organization. It is not a point in time effort, but one that has to be in sync with the business as it evolves, adapts, changes, and morphs.
Business is changing minute-minute and second-by-second. This requires an ongoing function that ensures that each new service or business process that makes use of personal identity information within the organization must take the protection of personal data into consideration when designing new or updating operational processes.
To achieve sustainable privacy compliance, organizations need to have privacy compliance technologies in place that are efficient, effective, and agile to keep up with a dynamic business environment. This is not a point in time effort and requires ongoing diligence to work towards compliance. Doing this in manual processes with documents, spreadsheets, and emails will only lead to gaps, errors, and eventually significant issues of non-compliance resulting in potential penalties.