If you needed any proof that Europeans are decisive about enforcing regulations you don't have to look any further than the recent $2.7 Billion antitrust fine against Google. This comes in anticipation of new EU law called GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). GDPR is just around the corner (May 2018) and carries significant financial fines for non-compliance. Without a doubt, the advent of ML, AI and Data Science has had a massive impact on our lives over the last couple of years and will continue to do so in the foreseeable future. Data science is … moving from a "wild west" attitude to quickly becoming a crucial part of most Global 2000's enterprises Bio: Martin Hack is the Executive Chairman of Kensu, a company that has developed the first of its kind GCP (Governance, Compliance and Performance) solution for Data Science.