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Vol. I · No. 251
Mon · 8 Jun
A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data
The Lexicon

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data subject access request

/ˈdeɪtə ˈsʌbdʒɪkt ˈæksɛs rɪˈkwɛst/ - n.

1 [colloq.] A request that, for the first time, forces the organization to find out where it actually keeps that person.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. A formal request by which an individual obtains the personal data an organization holds about them.

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See also
  • data discoveryThe tool whose first scan is reclassified internally as an incident.
  • data lineage for auditA diagram that is accurate up to the join where someone exported it to a spreadsheet and emailed it.
  • right to be forgottenA right honored in production, in staging, in the warehouse, in the lake, in the backups, and in the seventeen exports nobody mapped.