Case Study: Ancestry achieves automated privacy review visibility and faster collaboration with TerraTrue

Ancestry scales privacy reviews for 1,400+ employees with TerraTrue

Ancestry, a genealogy company, faced significant challenges in managing privacy reviews for its engineering team of over 1,400 employees. Their privacy team of five lacked visibility into new developments, relied on scattered communication via email and Slack, and conducted tedious manual assessments. This process was inefficient and failed to keep pace with product development, leading to missed or delayed reviews.

To solve this, Ancestry implemented TerraTrue, which integrated directly with their engineering team's existing Rally system. This integration provided automated visibility, using gating questions to triage reviews and allowing engineers to collaborate without leaving Rally. As a result, TerraTrue gave the small privacy team complete visibility into all engineering work, scaled their efforts through automation, and centralized collaboration. This enabled five people to effectively manage privacy for the entire company, replacing slow manual processes with a streamlined, auditable system.

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