Machine Learning: The New Imperative For Your Governance Strategy

If you've been working toward General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance over the last couple of years, you are probably feeling like your data compliance environment is in good shape. You've identified what information exists, where it is and how it flows, and in the best-case scenario, you're eliminating data silos that otherwise hamper end-to-end compliance processes. While improving these processes will continue to be a top priority, it's time to find other ways to use these new data governance capabilities to help the business. These days, I'm regularly being pulled into machine learning projects to offer some assurance that the personal and sensitive information pouring into these innovative applications for research and development (R&D), marketing and sales is being used in a compliant way. Certainly, good GDPR hygiene is a tremendous asset in this effort, but there is a lot more to consider when it comes to machine learning (ML).