Privacy Rights Roadmap: Business Guide
Understanding GDPR, CCPA and other privacy rights compliance requirements
Under privacy laws in the United States and the GDPR, individuals-including your customers, employees, and website visitors, and even in some cases ex-employees-have rights concerning their personal data that you manage. They can request the deletion, amendment, and restricted sharing of their information, or opt-out entirely.
Though these rights are clear, navigating compliance with these laws can be complex. Designed to save you time, effort, and money, our guide simplifies the compliance journey, providing clear definitions, a straightforward explanation of the compliance steps, insights into common questions, and practical actions for immediate implementation.
At Red Clover Advisors, we believe that compliance with privacy rights obligations is a cornerstone of a responsible privacy program. We’re here to help your organization establish streamlined processes that allow individuals to execute these rights, while streamlining the compliance process for individuals and companies.
The GDPR made popular the phrase Data Subject Access Rights in 2018. We think these rights are a great idea – but we hate the name. Only a lawyer or a politician would call someone a Data Subject. So we call them Privacy Rights. However, these rights are also known by various names across different jurisdictions and industries and often referred to as: Data Subject Rights, Data Subject Access Rights (DSARs), Individual Rights, or Consumer Rights. Although the terminology may vary, they all center on the same fundamental idea: individuals possess rights related to their personal data that you manage. And these individuals aren’t just anyone – they’re the people who have a relationship with your company – your customers, prospects and stakeholders. It’s our responsibility to tell them what rights they have and make it easy and clear for them to exercise those rights.