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While writing this book, people in my neighborhood asked me “isn’t it incredibly boring to write about privacy law?” Others told me about the misconceptions they had seen in the companies and organizations where they work: “People seem to think that everything is different now, or even that everything they need to do is now illegal.” You can hear the same message in TV news: “Government organization X cannot function properly because of the limitations imposed by privacy law” and “Errors in the healthcare sector because patient data may no longer be exchanged, while this is urgently needed”.

For me it was a pleasure to write this book, and no, it is not boring. On the contrary, the more I studied the details to try and make it a clear and comprehensible story, the more interesting it became.

But this book is not an effort of one solitary person in a silent room, somewhere in the rural north of the Netherlands. That is how it started, a lot of text based on an earlier white paper and some blog articles I wrote for EXIN. After those first steps, however, it became a team effort.

Acknowledgements to Marianne Hubregtse and Rita Pilon of EXIN for the idea to write this book, to Ivo van Haren and Bart Verbrugge of Van Haren Publishing for good counsel and excellent critiques, to Fintan Swanton for kindly providing a perfect foreword, to Steve Newton for correcting the many errors and imperfections in the English text I wrote. If you still find an infringement on English spelling or grammar, it is certainly mine.