Privacy has grabbed the attention of Boards of Directors (BoDs) across regions as organizations look to comply with new privacy regulations and compliance mandates such as GDPR, CCPA-California Privacy Act, Colorado Privacy Act, New York Privacy Act, India Data Protection Bill, and other US Privacy laws as well as other Global Privacy mandates and others. Privacy is the trending buzzword, and the potential impact is very real. Personal data were processed for political and economic reasons without users’ consent, as happened at the Cambridge Analytics event. In view of such recent incidents, the failure of the EU Safe Harbor and the Privacy Shield to provide real protection, privacy laws are now changing and becoming more stringent. The magnitude of recent GDPR fines has added to the Privacy complexity.