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2025 data privacy trends: Predictions from the Didomi team

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1/14/2025

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January 14, 2025

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Thierry Maout

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Summary

To kick off the new year, we sat down with our leadership team to discuss 2025 and what their predictions for the biggest upcoming trends are. 

Read on, or scroll down to the end of the article for a shorter video version.

What will be the biggest data privacy trend in 2025?

Two main answers emerged when we asked this question to our leadership team: The prevalence of privacy and consent, and the need for innovative standards and solutions to face upcoming challenges. 

Upcoming data privacy and business challenges will require new, innovative solutions in 2025

In light of the constant evolution of the data privacy ecosystem and the changes ahead, the other half of our team focused on the need for organizations and the industry in general to adapt with new technologies, standards, or approaches to compliance.

No post about data privacy trends is complete without mentioning the end of third-party cookies, and with the latest developments from Google on that front, our Director of Customer Success Charlotte Perrin chose to mention the importance of exploring cookieless alternatives, such as server-side tagging, data clean rooms, or universal ID solutions:

In my opinion, the biggest privacy trend in 2025 will be the evolution of cookieless technologies and the way it will redefine digital advertising.

- Charlotte Perrin, Director of Customer Success at Didomi

For our CEO, Romain Gauthier, the biggest data privacy trend for 2025 will be standardization:

I think the biggest data privacy trend for 2025 is going to be standardization. 

It may not be a new trend but it's one that is critical for the data privacy category in general. We know of initiatives like the TCF for consent in the AdTech space, and other standards emerging around IAB like GPP in the U.S., but standardization is also needed in other verticals for other regulations.

It's a really exciting space where, at Didomi, we try to monitor and contribute as much as we can, and I believe it will be a key element of the future of data privacy.



- Romain Gauthier, CEO and co-founder at Didomi

We discussed this need for standardization previously, and the emergence of frameworks like fiDA in the financial sector is an indicator that a verticalization of privacy is underway, something our CEO highlighted previously in one of his quarterly reflections on LinkedIn.

Lastly, our Chief Privacy Officer, Thomas Adhumeau, who frequently shares his expertise and insights in this blog, highlighted the importance of monitoring in 2025:

In 2025, beyond artificial intelligence, I think there will be growing accountability for service providers to make sure they actually monitor how consent is obtained on their behalf by owners of digital properties.

This has been a recurring theme in 2024 and I think it's only going to get bigger in 2025. We already had the Criteo case in France in 2023 where it was made clear that Data Protection Authorities (DPA) expect third-party providers, so long as they interact with digital properties or drop trackers, to make sure that consent was obtained validly - irrespective of any contractual clauses that might be in place.

For that reason, I think monitoring is clearly going to be a theme in 2025. We've already seen a wave of incoming enforcement in Germany, and I predict that more are on the way. Auditing your website or app every five years for compliance purposes is not going to cut it anymore.

- Thomas Adhumeau, Chief Privacy Officer at Didomi

To read more about Thomas' thoughts surrounding this topic, head to his recent article:

What is the one data privacy topic everyone should pay attention to in 2025? 

To top off our interview, we asked members of our leadership team to share their opinion on the one data privacy topic everyone should pay attention to this year.

Answers included AI, opt-out, first-party data, and more. To see their answers in detail and hear their complete predictions, check out our video interview with the team:

 

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Thierry Maout
Lead content manager at Didomi.
Managing content at Didomi. I love reading, writing, and learning about data privacy, technology, culture, and education.
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