Along with cybersecurity, data privacy was one of last year’s hottest issues aside from generative AI (which raises privacy concerns of its own).

From biometric data to online child safety and everything in between, the focus on protecting data, including PII, ratcheted up in 2023. Tools allowing bad actors to improperly access personal data became more sophisticated, while organizations increasingly found themselves in the hot seat for not adequately respecting or protecting their clients’ or consumers’ information.