Companies Turning to Tech Vendors for Privacy Compliance Tools

A growing number of companies are looking to vendors with high-tech tools to help them navigate data privacy laws in the European Union, California and elsewhere.

The vendors offer products to help companies manage a wide range of data, such as ones that automate how to map out the information and how to move it within the company. Others offer compliance tools that aim to help companies streamline data access requests.

“Consumers are demanding better control over their data, and legislators are scrambling to meet those demands,” said Richard Wells, a managing director at Insight Partners, a venture capital and ...