Data Privacy And Cybersecurity Developments We Are Watching In 2025

The act of predicting what will become the dominating storyline of data privacy and cybersecurity in 2025 is a hazardous enterprise, as one is almost surely to get something wrong. Without fail, every year, regulators and the plaintiffs' bar push data privacy and cybersecurity in a direction that seemed unlikely the prior calendar year. Yet, we are undeterred. After canvassing our global group of data privacy and cybersecurity professionals, below are the topics that we are watching most closely as we kick off 2025. While these may not be the headlines that dominate when we look back after 12 months, we anticipate that companies will have spent significant time in 2025 working through the developments below.