Marjolein’s role as Chief Privacy Officer consists of advising Signify on its compliance programs, assisting in negotiations and doing risk assessments. She supports her team of privacy officers who assess each initiative on the potential impact of the initiative towards the privacy rights of individuals.

To ensure that the company has a robust privacy structure in shape, there are three keys questions to keep in mind:

1. What is the impact of this initiative on privacy?

2. If there is an impact, what do I need to consider?

3. How do I build in design principles on security, privacy compliance, and guide them?

But why is privacy important? As a company, respecting human rights and basic principles such as protecting your individual rights, your freedom is important. Acting with integrity is part of our DNA, protecting of personal data becomes more and more relevant in our digitalized world.

If we look at how Signify is developing, if it's digitalizing, consumer and customer interfaces, our own internal ways of working with digitalization, you come across the fact that you need to log into something you need to administrate it, and with that Signify gets the data. If that data then also holds that connection to personal data, it becomes relevant. That is what's coloring the importance of the privacy program in lines of our compliance progress.

When it comes to data ethics, we need to start thinking about the protection of data as a whole.