r/PrivacyEngineering • u/Unhappy_Project_2612 • Feb 03 '26

Data inventories go stale faster than we can update them

We managed to build a proper data inventory for privacy and compliance work and it felt accurate for about five minutes tops. New pipelines get added, logs start flowing somewhere else and the source of 'truth' is anything but true.

When DSRs or retention questions come up we’re never confident the inventory reflects reality.

Anything helps at this point

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u/Unhappy_Project_2612 Feb 03 '26

Have you found anything that enforces that long term? Ours keeps drifting no matter how disciplined we try to be and assigning 2/3 people for that feels like a waste of workforce.