How should the chief privacy officer of an international enterprise BEST balance the requirements of the enterprise's privacy standards with local regulations?

Question

Options

• APrioritize organizational standards over local regulations.
• BConduct awareness training regarding conflicts between the standards and local regulations.
• CPrioritize local regulations over organizational standards.
• DCreate a local version of the organizational standards.

• A
  13% (2)
• B
  13% (2)
• C
  7% (1)
• D
  67% (10)

Explanation

Creating a local version of organizational standards (D) is the best approach because it allows the enterprise to maintain its core privacy principles while incorporating jurisdiction-specific legal requirements - neither ignoring local law nor abandoning corporate standards, but harmonizing both into a compliant, workable framework.

Why the others are wrong:

• A is wrong because organizational standards cannot override local law - violating local regulations exposes the enterprise to legal liability regardless of internal policy.
• B is wrong because awareness training alone doesn't resolve the conflict; employees still lack a clear, compliant standard to follow.
• C is wrong because blindly prioritizing local regulations could undermine the enterprise's global privacy baseline and create inconsistency across jurisdictions.

Memory tip: Think of it as "localize, don't compromise" - the CPO's job is to adapt the standard to fit local law, not pick a winner between the two.

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