Most firms not ready for data access requests under GDPR

New research by business services firm BSI has found that over half of European organisations have no fixed method in place for responding to Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs).

The research, carried out by the Cybersecurity and Information Resilience division of BSI, in helping organisations prepare for the GDPR, also highlighted that a third of European businesses rate themselves as highly likely to receive a DSAR.

A DSAR is the legal mechanism which ...