How to budget for a GDPR project: A primer

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Dec 14 2016

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I am a partner and the head of our Privacy and Data Protection group in Helsinki, where I advise our local and international clients on complex privacy and data issues.

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If you have been to any privacy conferences lately, looked at privacy websites or spoken to your trusted privacy advisor, you have probably heard with increasing frequency the following tune: the May 2018 deadline for the GDPR is approaching fast, and you should be prepared and budgeting accordingly.

But what does this mean in concrete terms? Here are some tips on how to better estimate the costs of a GDPR project, breaking down the problem of budgeting into two clear steps.