Scaling ROPA, PIAs & privacy documentation across 1,000+ applications | Aaron Mendelsohn

How do you complete privacy documentation across hundreds of teams and more than 1,000 applications without overwhelming the business? In this episode of Practical Privacy, Orla Dormer is joined by Aaron Mendelsohn, Director and Senior Privacy Officer at The LEGO Group, to discuss how his team rebuilt and scaled privacy documentation across a large global organisation.

Aaron explains how they combined privacy technology, risk-based prioritisation, and extensive team enablement to successfully document over 1,000 applications within a 12-month period. He also shares why privacy professionals need to move beyond policy writing and spend more time understanding how product and engineering teams actually work.

This episode covers:

• Scaling ROPAs, PIAs and privacy documentation programmes

• Using risk-based approaches to focus effort where it matters most

• The role of change management in privacy success

• Building stronger relationships with internal stakeholders

• Creating sustainable compliance processes that teams will actually use

• Future opportunities to combine privacy, AI and broader compliance assessments

A practical conversation for privacy leaders, DPOs and compliance professionals looking to improve documentation processes without creating unnecessary friction for the business.

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