One of my least favourite jobs is cleaning up after someone else has done a poor job.
Unsurprisingly, no-one wants to pay for something twice, even if they recognise that the first job wasn’t up to it.
Ah, one of the joys of being a data protection lawyer.
It would be so much easier if people were honest in terms of their capabilities.
The GDPR created an industry around data protection, and a lure to some of perceived easy money. Anyone can “do data protection”!
Anyone can say that they are a “data protection consultant” or a “privacy professional”, and even the expensive certs mean relatively little in terms of actual competence, IME.
There are loads of talented, amazing data protection people, and I love working with them.
The bandwagon is, however, rather long…
*grumbles*
I don't have any IAPP certs, fwiw.
I know people who do who I wouldn't trust to give data protection advice.
I know many people who don't who I would readily trust, and to whom I happily refer work.
It is a shame that, for some privacy roles, the gating criteria includes an IAPP cert, but I guess it is seen as an easy, if ineffective, filter.
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