The Devil's In The Data – Our Privacy Predictions For 2022

Data privacy will remain risky and unpredictable for firms doing business across borders

This article was first published on International Data Privacy Day (that's 28 January for civilians) but the awkward truth for the business community is that data handling will remain stubbornly high up the agenda throughout 2022.

We are now one year on from the introduction of the UK GDPR in a post-Brexit Britain. Two years on from the start of a global pandemic, which forced a discussion around the tension between public health and data privacy. And over three years on from the GDPR coming into force across Europe, and by extension the world. Yet the passing time has done nothing to diminish the intense focus on data in a rapidly digitising global economy in which information is a crucial commodity. But if nothing is simple about the flux of privacy law and regulation, our predictions for what's in store in 2022 will at least leave you forewarned.