# Privacy for the newly appointed (and already exasperated) DPO

DevFeed: [Privacy for the newly appointed (and already exasperated) DPO](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/privacy-for-the-newly-appointed-and-already-exasperated-dpo-29184.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.latacora.com/blog/2025/06/27/privacy-for-the-newly-appointed-and-already-exasperated-dpo/>)

Published: 2025-06-27T16:09:35Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Latacora](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/latacora.md>)

Topics: [dpo](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dpo.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [trust](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/trust.md>)

Tags: [compliance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compliance.md>), [data-protection](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-protection.md>), [dpo](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dpo.md>), [gdpr](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gdpr.md>), [law](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/law.md>), [privacy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/privacy.md>), [trust](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/trust.md>)

## AI overview

This article offers guidance for startup employees responsible for privacy and data protection, including newly appointed Data Protection Officers. It argues that transparency, privacy by design, and data minimization help businesses maintain compliance and build customer trust, while noting the extraterritorial reach of the EU GDPR and China's PIPL.

## Source excerpt

Every other week, regulators around the world bombard their constituents with new data protection laws and acronyms. As the person who was just voluntold you're now responsible for privacy at your startup, in addition to all your other duties and without any additional resources, how can you possibly be expected to keep up--let alone contextualize that information to maintain compliance? Privacy, at its core, is an ethical issue, which means the solution to your privacy challenges is deceptively simple: do the right thing and be transparent with your customers. That's it. That's what everyone means when they say "privacy by design."