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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
Any complex process involving multiple stakeholders runs better when there is a clear leader in charge. Someone to take ownership of the process, oversee the various moving parts and ensure that each step is run
The challenge: Collect, image and return 50+ computers from senior stakeholders with minimum disruption, whilst maintaining impeccable and incontrovertible forensic data integrity. Our highly experienced team of forensics experts collected and forensically imaged and validated
The challenge: Shine a light on 10,000 inter-related entities held in multiple spreadsheets to help investigate fraudulent activities and establish connections/key players. Using an innovative, visual model, developed specifically for a client, Salient’s expert datasmiths
It’s a common misconception that the value of eDiscovery is confined to legal matters. As a result, many corporates procure their eDiscovery services from their law firms as part of a legal response “package” (with
The global shift towards remote and hybrid workplaces has triggered exponential growth in the use of email and other electronic messaging. For investigators, this presents both opportunity and challenge: vast volumes of potentially rich investigative
Being the emerging frontrunner comes with a few challenges. You have to shout a little louder than the competition and prove your worth a little more convincingly. In the case of technology – particularly within
In our latest series of articles, we unpacked the benefits of Early Data Assessment (“EDA”) with a particular focus on how in-place EDA, coupled with a proactive outlook, can help drive down the cost of
In generic terms, cognitive analytics is the process of applying human-like intelligence to unstructured data in order to enrich the value we can extract from it. It’s inspired by the way the human brain processes
The moment electronic messages were recognised as records that could be archived and produced in court (mid-2000s), the technology servicing the legal industry began to evolve. Over the years, the resulting advances have made it
We joined forces with Cloud Essentials to share our eDiscovery expertise as part of their Expert Insights webinar series focused on Microsoft Purview Compliance capability. Practical advice to drive down the cost of eDiscovery David
As smartphones have become more and more deeply ingrained in daily life, so too have they become more critical to investigations. These outwardly innocuous devices hold a wealth of potentially revealing and discoverable information, including
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 –