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Not long ago, submitting a well-structured Data Subject Access Request (DSAR) took time. It required a working understanding of data protection rights, a sense of how organisations process information, and often a fair amount of persistence. Now, it takes five minutes with a free GenAI account. That shift hasn’t changed the law. But it has changed the experience of DSARs in a way that privacy teams are starting to feel quite acutely. What we’re seeing isn’t a surge in bad-faith requests. It’s something more nuanced and more challenging. Requests are becoming easier to generate, more sophisticated in tone, and harder to deal with efficiently. How is AI changing the DSAR landscape? Generative AI has changed how DSARs are created, and this is reshaping the workload for privacy teams. The barrier to entry is lower A requester no longer needs to understand your processing activities – or even the structure of
For most organisations, checking in with legal counsel before choosing a Microsoft licence package sounds absurd. For those dealing with regular litigation, internal investigations or Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs), however, the right licence –
Should It Stay or Should It Go? A terrible wordplay on The Clash’s 1981 classic perhaps, but to retain or dispose of data is a core theme in this, the last piece in our Discovery Risk
Improving preparedness to eDiscovery events In the previous article, we explored considerations when assessing your current eDiscovery and information governance maturity. Having undertaken that exercise and established a benchmark, clearly, the next step is to
Assessing your corporate capability to respond effectively to investigations and eDiscovery events. In an earlier post, I introduced Discovery Risk Mitigation, our structured journey-based approach to helping organisations reduce their exposure to the risks inherent within
Mitigating the eDiscovery risks due to the explosion of electronic data in your business through a structured programme of preparedness. Being Prepared I’m sure most people are familiar with the expression “prevention is better than
As investigators or Forensic professionals, surely we can all relate to the pressures that we are put under when starting an investigation. The client typically wants to know how long the investigation will take, how
Helping clients reduce their litigation risk exposure might sound counter-intuitive to legal services firms whose lifeblood is billable services. And that is precisely what Discovery Risk Mitigation sets out to do. Firstly, to ensure that clients understand
It’s probably a common reality in the eDiscovery world that as service providers, we spend the majority of our time supporting clients who are under duress, responding to an internal investigation or external litigation event.
Confidence in a rigorous, robust and defensible digital forensic investigation When a local government organisation in South Africa identified potential fraudulent activities involving a training contract, they asked us to
A fast-response digital investigation to find evidence of intent Our legal client requested our assistance in a case involving suspected IP theft. Their client, a software development company, had suspicions
Legal review of 9 million documents completed in 90 days A powerful combination of AI-driven technology, data analytics advice and targeted human review focused our legal client’s case-build activities on
Improving data richness and relevance at the early stages of an investigation The challenge: Our law firm client had been instructed by a client in the early stages of an
The challenge: To retrieve and maintain the data integrity of digital evidence on site in a sub-Saharan capital , on behalf of our legal client. Speed of response (less than
When a law firm was instructed to conduct an investigation on behalf of a large, South African infrastructure client, they requested Salient assist in the processing of the data. Coincidentally,