Be Ready For Requests To Access Your Company's Data

Businesses have become data repositories. It is unavoidable. All organisations - public, private and third sector - build up vast amounts of information, commercial, organisational and personal. It is crucial that business managers understand the significant obligations in terms of data protection and privacy, as well as heightened risks of cyber threat.

Increasingly, organisations in all sectors are having to contend with more regular and complex statutory information requests for personal data of their employees or other individuals (data subject access requests or "DSARs").

For public authorities, and some private sector entities operating within the public sector or performing certain functions, have the additional burden of being subject to Freedom of Information legislation. Those bodies should have a full understanding of what information they hold and ensure robust processes are in place to respond to what are often broad requests for information. The