GDPR Compliance Software: Tools for Data Privacy
The ICO's June 2026 guidance on IoT products explicitly states that manufacturers must conduct DPIAs before processing personal data from connected devices, and that consent must be obtained for any tracking technologies used. With penalties under PECR now aligned to UK GDPR levels — up to £17.5 million or 4% of global turnover — the cost of manual compliance management is no longer just administrative.
Compliance teams managing GDPR manually spend roughly 60% of their time on record-keeping alone — ROPA maintenance, DPIA documentation, consent logs, breach reports. That is time most product companies don't have.
GDPR compliance software automates these workflows. On the Sustalium platform, we built the GDPR module specifically for product companies — not tech firms — because the data flows are different when you're managing IoT data, supplier records, and customer shipments rather than SaaS user accounts.