Privacy Request (Data Subject Request)

A Privacy Request refers to a Data Subject Access Request that is an important facet of privacy laws like GDRP in Europe or Consumer Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) in California. Most of the regulations give certain data rights to consumers like right of access or deletion.

Any data subject (that is, anyone whose personal data your company has collected and stored) may submit a DSAR, so long as they are protected by an applicable regulation. Most of the time, this is customers or users, such as e-commerce clients, but DSAR requests are not limited to consumers. Other individuals who may submit a DSAR request include employees and former employees, contractors, suppliers, sales prospects, etc…