Predictions on privacy within your enterprise for 2021
Forrester Research Inc. has laid out some of its predictions regarding privacy in 2021. Among those predictions include a 100% increase in regulatory and legal activity related to employee privacy, a significant change in whom privacy leaders report to within the enterprise and more.
From privacy failures in AI that threaten individuals’ equality, to privacy violations that undermine market fairness and hurt consumers and businesses, to unethical practices that propagate unwarranted surveillance inside the workplace, diminishing employees’ trust and experience, the implications of privacy will run deeply into business and society in the next 12 months.
After a slowdown due to the pandemic, the increasingly evident interdependencies between privacy, ethics, fairness and transparency will lead to more scrutiny not only from privacy regulators, but also competition authorities and consumers’ rights protection bodies in 2021. However, these values don’t just matter to regulators. They matter to consumers and customers, too.