Minnesota’s comprehensive privacy law requires organizations to complete personal data inventories, a longstanding best practice that anchors effective responses to incidents, regulators and consumers. Inventorying PI and mapping data flows has clear benefits, but the constant influx of data and use of AI strains organizations’ efforts. This article discusses strategies for building effective inventories, extending them into fuller data maps and making the best use of those maps, with insights from Intuit, Womble Bond Dickinson and the Minnesota representative who was the principal sponsor of its privacy law, along with Contoural and KLC Law experts who spoke during a BARBRI webinar. See “Managing Privacy Across the Cross-Border M&A Lifecycle” (Sep. 16, 2026).