With the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we have seen an increase in the number of clients receiving Subject Access Requests (SARs).  Are you able to handle and respond to them? 

Find out the top 5 things to know about SARs below - for further guidance, contact the TrueSwift help team today.

What is a subject access request?:

A subject access request, is a request in writing or verbally, for an individual

Subject Access Requests are a component of data management introduced in The GDPR and DPA 18.
This blog will go into more detail on what SARs are, how they can be requested and how you should respond to them.

Subject Access Requests (SARs), give individuals the lawful right to be granted permission to obtain and review a copy of their personal data held by an organisation. This allows individuals to fully understand what data is held

 Email is one of the most convenient and prolific means of business communication.  For many, it is just a transient business commodity, but for others, it can be mined to produce powerful business intelligence.

Whichever camp your business falls into, the majority of organisations (and their employees) perform little email housekeeping and as a result, emails are kept for unspecified timeframes.

Most individuals prefer to retain all but the most trivial business emails for those