It’s hard to believe we’ve almost reached the one-year anniversary of the date the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect. Leading up to that May 25, 2018 date, news headlines were dominated by fear, uncertainty and doubt over whether organizations would successfully comply in time.

Over the past year, we saw an endless stream of stories about companies getting slapped with fines for violating various regulations within GDPR. In fact, a recent report by DLA Piper found that there’s been almost 60,000 breaches reported over the past year and more than 90 fines imposed.