Barefoot Privacy

most organizations struggle with data privacy compliance. it's not because they're not prepared, or they don't have the expertise, or they don't have a privacy governance in place. but because they haven't invited their customers to the conversation to build an ironclad and defensible program that can convince regulators they really care about protecting personal information. the proof of this? i guarantee that the organizations that got fined by us and eu privacy watchdogs did not have a privacy posture that reflected their good faith and extra mile to protect their customers' data. why? because they did not get their customers' input to build their run-of-the-mill privacy program. and that sums up the "raison d'être" for barefoot privacy. i wanted to build a privacy book that wins the heart of my sme readers and helps addressing privacy watchdogs requests when a cyber breach hits the fan. not by just making the usual roadmap recommendations to harden cyber security, map the p