While legal departments are well aware of the risks associated with not complying with a patchwork of data privacy laws, it is still important for in-house attorneys to make a business case for data use to help ensure compliance.

A group of in-house attorneys discussed strategies for getting the business on board with data compliance during a webinar hosted by Exterro and the Data Protection World Forum on Tuesday.

Hugo Teufel III, chief privacy officer and deputy general counsel at CenturyLink in Denver, said when he worked in-house at Raytheon Technologies Corp., he would benchmark where his team was and how other compliance areas were managed.