119filers, current period
78the period before
6controls it touches
5frameworks
Privacy Compliance in 10-K and 10-Q filings, by month.
The marked line is the first month any public company in our record used the phrase; everything left of it is nobody writing it down.
Companies disclosing it
119
wrote this into a filing with the SEC
What it obligates
6
controls across 5 frameworks whose text speaks to it
Employers hiring for it
2,655
open US roles name it, and the ones below are hiring now
The long view, in annual and quarterly filings
A 10-K or 10-Q is a periodic report, so this counts how often the phrase appears in routine annual and quarterly reporting. It moves far more slowly and the numbers are larger.
Every month since 2008. The last point is the current month and is still
filling, so it always looks lower than it will be.
2008
peak 116 in February 2026
2026
Share this finding
Half as many again as the same quarter last year. The card below carries the whole finding, so it makes
sense to somebody who never clicks through.
Who disclosed it
From SEC full-text search over 8-K filings. Every row links to the filing itself.
| Company | Form | Filed | |
|---|
| TANDEM DIABETES CARE INC TNDM | 8-K | 2026-08-06 | filing |
| Four Leaf Acquisition Corp | 8-K | 2026-09-02 | filing |
| Data443 Risk Mitigation, Inc. ATDS | 8-K | 2026-09-02 | filing |
| Chiron Real Estate Inc. | 8-K/A | 2026-08-17 | filing |
| Golub Capital Direct Lending Unlevered Corp | 8-K | 2026-08-07 | filing |
| GOLUB CAPITAL DIRECT LENDING CORP | 8-K | 2026-08-13 | filing |
| Golub Capital BDC 4, Inc. | 8-K | 2026-08-06 | filing |
| REGIS CORP RGS | 8-K | 2026-09-01 | filing |
| Bluerock Acquisition Corp. | 8-K | 2026-08-03 | filing |
| 8X8 INC /DE/ EGHT | 8-K | 2026-09-09 | filing |
| WHIRLPOOL CORP /DE/ | 8-K | 2026-08-03 | filing |
| GOLUB CAPITAL BDC, Inc. GBDC | 8-K | 2026-08-03 | filing |
| OCULUS INC. OVTZ | 10-Q | 2026-08-06 | filing |
| Meta Platforms, Inc. META | 10-Q | 2026-07-30 | filing |
| Intapp, Inc. INTA | 10-K | 2026-08-14 | filing |
| Sports Entertainment Gaming Global Corp | 10-K/A | 2026-07-31 | filing |
The full search on EDGAR
Who is hiring for it
A sample of the open roles naming this phrase. An employer paying a salary
against something is the least ambiguous demand signal there is, and every row links to the
posting so the claim can be checked rather than believed. The total above is the whole US
market; these are the ones we hold the posting for.
| Role | Posted |
|---|
| Lead Security Compliance Engineer Klaviyo, Inc. · Boston, MA | 2026-09-22 |
| Lead Security Compliance Engineer Klaviyo, Inc. · Denver, CO | 2026-09-22 |
| Recruiting Coordinator (12 months contract) Pure Storage, Inc. · Bangalore, India | 2026-09-10 |
| Senior Software Development Engineer L4 Inovalon Holdings, Inc. · Remote- United States | 2026-09-09 |
| Compliance Manager (Data Protection Officer, Regulatory Compliance & Privacy) Affirm Holdings, Inc. · Remote UK | 2026-09-03 |
| Marketing Technology Lead Lyft, Inc. · Toronto, Canada | 2026-09-03 |
| Sr Privacy Compliance and Ops Manager INTUITIVE SURGICAL INC · Peachtree Corners | 2026-09-02 |
| Sr Privacy Compliance and Ops Manager INTUITIVE SURGICAL INC · Sunnyvale | 2026-09-02 |
| Senior Privacy Counsel PINTEREST, INC. · Dublin, IE | 2026-08-31 |
| Solution Architect Akoya Biosciences, Inc. · Boston, MA. New York, NY. Raleigh, NC. | 2026-08-25 |
| Head of Compliance Astra Space, Inc. · Remote - US Only | 2026-08-24 |
| Marketing Operations Manager MongoDB, Inc. · Dublin, Ireland | 2026-08-24 |
| Associate General Counsel, Privacy Compliance Cloudflare, Inc. · Hybrid | 2026-08-21 |
| HR System Admin Pure Storage, Inc. · Bangalore, India | 2026-08-21 |
Which industries file it
Companies grouped by the industry classification on their own filing. A count, not a
survey.
| Industry | | Companies |
|---|
| Chemicals and pharmaceuticals | | 79 |
| Software and IT services | | 73 |
| Not classified | | 64 |
| Banking | | 22 |
| Holding and investment offices | | 21 |
| Instruments and medical devices | | 18 |
| Electronics and electrical equipment | | 18 |
| Health services | | 17 |
| Services and entertainment | | 17 |
| Insurance | | 16 |
What it obligates
Our corpus holds 6 controls across
5 frameworks whose text speaks to this. Not a judgement:
these controls say so, and each is one lookup from its source document. Ordered by how much each
framework has to say about it, so the one that will cost you the most work is first. Every name
opens that framework in the corpus.
What an auditor will ask you to produce
The artefacts named on those controls, most frequently cited first.
- Role inventory + RACI
- Module compliance + remediation
- Supervisory dialogue records
- privacy programme plan and staffing
- privacy impact assessment records
- record of processing activities
- breach notification procedure and any invocations
- compliance assessment reports
How it usually fails
Recorded when each control was verified against its source. This is where programmes
that think they are covered turn out not to be.
- Roles undefined
- Module compliance gaps
- Supervisory engagement weak
- privacy folded into security with no distinct assessment work
- record of processing incomplete for newer systems
- assessments performed after go-live
GDPR Evidence & Implementation Kit
40 controls sit behind GDPR, and this is the documentation set for them: an adopt-ready artifact per control, and the evidence an auditor asks for against each.
See what is in it, $249
The same set every buyer of this kit receives. Nothing here is produced on request.
40If you already run GDPR, that is the 40 controls behind this disclosure, already evidenced.
138And ISO 27701:2019 is not a separate programme. 138 of its controls are the same controls. If it is on next year's plan, that part of it is already done.
35And ISO 27002:2022 is not a separate programme. 35 of its controls are the same controls. If it is on next year's plan, that part of it is already done.
34And ISO 27001:2022 is not a separate programme. 34 of its controls are the same controls. If it is on next year's plan, that part of it is already done.
Run as two programmes
178 controls
GDPR and ISO 27701:2019 scoped separately, each with its own
evidence, its own owner and its own budget line. This is how almost everybody does it.
Run once, counted twice
138 already done
138 of ISO 27701:2019's controls are controls you evidenced for
GDPR. Same artefacts, same owner, no second effort. The mapping is the
only reason anybody knows.
Privacy Compliance in 10-K and 10-Q filings, by month.
The marked line is the first month any public company in our record used the phrase; everything left of it is nobody writing it down.
What this actually means
- Why now
- 119 public companies wrote this into an 8-K in the last seven days, 53% more than the seven before. That is not sentiment or a survey. It is a count of companies choosing to put a phrase into a document they are legally accountable for.
- Who already cares
- 2,655 open US roles name this work today, which suggests increased attention to it beyond what any filing says. A job advertisement clears a budget holder and a filing clears legal, so the two answer to different people. We have not measured which moves first, only that both are moving.
- What comes into scope
- Once the phrase is on the record it maps to obligations within GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, AICPA Privacy Management Framework (PMF). 140 controls behind those, and the difference between asserting them and evidencing them is the whole of the work.
- Who is quietly ahead
- Anyone already running GDPR has done 138 of the controls that carry ISO 27701:2019 too. Same evidence, second standard. Most organisations run those as two programmes with two budgets because nobody told them the mapping existed.
- Who is exposed
- 13 companies disclosed this for the first time in the last ninety days, out of 457 in total. A first mention is a company deciding it can no longer not say it. Whoever has not yet is either genuinely unaffected or has not looked, and nothing here distinguishes the two.
What this obligates
The instruments in our corpus that govern this disclosure, and how many controls sit
behind each. This is not a filing count. It is what applies once a company has written the
phrase down.
7 frameworks, 140 controls between them.
GDPR holds 40 controls. They appear again inside
268 other frameworks in our corpus; the 10 strongest are shown. Thickness and
size both carry the number of controls shared, so work done once counts in every framework on
this diagram.
What closing it also moves
The same controls appear in other frameworks through mappings held in our corpus. Work
done here is already progress there. This is the part that is not in EDGAR and not in any public
dataset: it comes from mappings built and verified by hand, control by control.
ISO 27701:2019138
ISO 27002:202235
ISO 27001:202234
NIS2 Directive23
Counted as controls reached through cross-framework mappings. It measures
overlap of work, not compliance with the named framework.
Run as two programmes
178 controls
GDPR and ISO 27701:2019 scoped separately, each with its own
evidence, its own owner and its own budget line. This is how almost everybody does it.
Run once, counted twice
138 already done
138 of ISO 27701:2019's controls are controls you evidenced for
GDPR. Same artefacts, same owner, no second effort. The mapping is the
only reason anybody knows.
40If you already run GDPR, that is the 40 controls behind this disclosure, already evidenced.
138And ISO 27701:2019 is not a separate programme. 138 of its controls are the same controls. If it is on next year's plan, that part of it is already done.
35And ISO 27002:2022 is not a separate programme. 35 of its controls are the same controls. If it is on next year's plan, that part of it is already done.
34And ISO 27001:2022 is not a separate programme. 34 of its controls are the same controls. If it is on next year's plan, that part of it is already done.
Tell me when Privacy Compliance files something new
One email when a public company newly discloses this, naming the company and what our corpus says it puts in scope. Nothing else, and one click to stop.
Where this comes from
The left half is public record: SEC full-text search over 8-K filings, counted across a
14 day window against the equivalent window before it. You can check
every row.
The right half is ours: 723 frameworks and
20,473 controls, 531 of those frameworks verified against
their source documents, with the auditor evidence and common failure modes recorded control by
control. Controls appear here because their own text names this term.
Cite this
The Art of Service Signals. Privacy Compliance corporate disclosure activity: 119 filers against 78 in the prior period, in 10-K and 10-Q filings, this quarter against the same quarter last year. Accessed 23 September 2026. https://signals.theartofservice.com/t/privacy-compliance/
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