7 Events in 7 Days: The Global Truth Privacy Teams Keep Repeating

Privacy isn’t local anymore.

The laws differ. The languages differ. The cultures, priorities, and enforcement vary wildly from New York to LA to Brussels to Tel Aviv.

But last week, during our first-ever MineOS Roadshow - 4 cities, 7 events, and dozens of conversations with privacy leaders - one thing became undeniably clear:

Everywhere we went, privacy teams are fighting the same battle: repetition.

Not a lack of expertise.
Not a lack of commitment.
Not a lack of influence.

Just a lack of time.

We kept hearing the same sentence, almost word for word:

“I know what good privacy looks like. I just can’t get to it, because I’m busy doing the same work over and over again.”

And behind that frustration sits a pattern everyone in this field knows too well:

• Updating RoPAs after every system or vendor change
• Filling the same assessment answers into slightly different forms
• Reviewing the same vendors with the same questions
• Rebuilding workflows because systems don’t integrate
• Triaging intake instead of solving the underlying issue

Different countries. Different maturity levels. Same operational wall.

Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

7 Things We Learned (Everywhere)

Across all seven events, seven truths kept surfacing - universal, regardless of regulation or job title:

1. The real bottleneck is repetition, not regulation
No one is overwhelmed by the rules - they’re overwhelmed by the tasks those rules create.

2. AI is forcing a visibility reckoning
You can’t govern what you can’t see - especially when employees adopt AI tools without telling anyone.

3. “Continuous” is the new baseline
A RoPA updated once a year isn’t compliance anymore - it’s risk. Teams know this. They just don’t have the hours.

4. Privacy is being pulled into strategy, but stuck in execution
Leaders want to guide innovation, product, AI, vendors - but the day-to-day keeps them reactive.

5. Shadow IT is now Shadow AI
The surface area has exploded. The anxiety has, too.

6. Integrations matter more than dashboards
Pretty UI means nothing if the work underneath isn’t actually moving.

7. Teams don’t want more tools, they want less work
The most repeated line of the entire roadshow:

“I don’t need another system. I just need the work to run itself.”

Where the Shift Is Happening

Despite the pain, something exciting is emerging.

At the Brussels summit, in panels, in dinners, and in hallway conversations, a new mindset was showing up everywhere:

Privacy doesn’t want to do more -> privacy wants to matter more.

Teams are hungry to:

• Steer AI adoption, not chase it
• Collaborate across security, legal, and IT with shared visibility
• Move from reactive documentation to proactive governance
• Spend time on decisions, not duplicate clicks

The aspiration is strategic.
The reality is operational.
And the gap between the two is what’s burning teams out.

Which leads to the real inflection point, not for a country or a company, but for the entire profession:

Privacy doesn’t scale with people. It scales with automation.

Not as replacement for expertise, but as force-multiplier of it.

When workflows run themselves, when inventories stay live, when risks surface before escalation, something fundamental changes:

Privacy stops reacting.
Privacy starts steering.

And every single city we visited echoed the same desire - to finally make that turn.

So Where Do We Go From Here?

Forward.

Toward less repetition, more intention.
Toward systems that update themselves, instead of teams chasing after them.
Toward privacy operations that are continuous, connected, and yes, increasingly autonomous.

Because privacy doesn’t need more dashboards, more taps, more copy-paste, or more backlogs.

It needs time back.

Time for judgment.
Time for decisions.
Time for impact.

That’s where the next era is heading, and last week proved it’s not just a MineOS belief. It’s a global one.

To everyone who attended, debated, challenged, shared frustrations, or shared vision - thank you! We left each city smarter, sharper, and more energized than we arrived.

See you at the next stop. 🚀

Until then, if you’re exploring how to scale privacy without scaling headcount, our team is always happy to share what we’re learning on this journey.

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