With the GDPR countdown underway it is time to get organised and having mapped your data usage think about what you need to do to be GDPR compliant by 25 May 2018 (or as close as possible to that date). For those organisations in the UK, there is the added complication of Brexit less than a year later and no certainty whether our national data protection legislation will be deemed adequate and what status the ICO will have on the European data protection stage. Exciting times ahead for all data protection lawyers and with that in mind I am taking the plunge and launching myself into a solo career. It’s early days but keep viewing to follow my progress.