The State of the U.S. Privacy Job Market, 2019

Few global legal phenomena in recent decades can compare to the sweeping impact the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation has had on big and small businesses alike, both domestic and abroad. GDPR has simultaneously been a job stimulus and an inflection point in how seriously society intends to govern our cultural, geopolitical and social identities as consumers. While U.S. law on data privacy is notably different and currently lacks federal regulation, a company's posture on data privacy has become vital to corporate brand identity — and arguably survival — in a changing global economy. Growth and maintenance of GDPR programs, fragmented updates in domestic privacy regulations, the increasing standardization and acceptance of training and education and an evolving American corporate commitment to consumer transparency around data collection will all alter the landscape of the privacy job market in the coming years. What we call and consider privacy today will enlarge and expand from this early origin, but for the near future, the impact will unquestionably mean more jobs.