Accountability Is the Real Requirement

In this episode of Compliance Technologies, we bring the GDPR series together by focusing on the principle that ultimately connects everything: accountability.

After exploring privacy by design, data minimization, purpose limitation, data retention, and lawful basis, this episode explains why GDPR enforcement increasingly centers on one core question: can an organization demonstrate compliance in practice, not just on paper?

We discuss how accountability shifts compliance from policies and intentions to systems, architecture, and evidence, and why regulators now expect organizations to continuously prove how their data processing decisions align with GDPR principles.

This episode reframes accountability as the real requirement behind GDPR, one that exposes inconsistencies between design choices, operational behavior, and compliance claims.

If you build, operate, or govern systems that process personal data, this conversation will help you understand what regulators are truly evaluating when they assess compliance.