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- 09 Aug, 2026
500,000 Organizations Have Registered a DPO [2026]
An estimated 500,000 organizations across Europe had registered a Data Protection Officer within GDPR's first year, per IAPP research published in May 2019. See the country breakdown, the France registry data, and when the law actually requires one.
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