DSARs
Data Subject Access Request Services
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Complex DSARs, handled with confidence
DSARs are a critical component of your organisation’s data protection compliance. When the context is complex, involving an ongoing dispute, whistleblower allegation or sensitive HR issue, the stakes are high. And balancing safeguarding privileged/confidential material with meeting data privacy regulation requirements can be delicate.
Mistakes in these scenarios can be costly, leading to reputational damage, regulatory scrutiny, or even a compromised legal position. This makes it crucial that organisations are able to respond to Data Subject Access Requests with precision, speed and care.
Avoiding over- or under-collection
Finding the relevant data, establishing proportionality in the collection process and ensuring careful extraction to preserve meta-data can be challenging across multiple locations, formats and complicated by existing legal holds.
Meeting tight deadlines for a response
The volumes of data involved in complex DSAR requests make it a challenge to collect, document, review and report within the required deadlines. It’s essential that you can report at this early stage of disclosure on the variety of data held with confidence of its accuracy and completeness.
Balancing data subject rights and third-party privacy
When it comes to full disclosure, you want to have confidence that you have collected everything relevant and necessary, and removed all sensitive and PII relating to other parties. AI-powered review and redaction technology can help to expedite this process and significantly reduce the risk of omission or over-inclusion.
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How can we help?
Salient Discovery’s specialist-led DSAR service combines expertise (legal professionals, digital forensic and eDiscovery) and the latest technology to accelerate the DSAR process, where possible, whilst ensuring a robust and defensible response.
Starting with a structured project initiation session to guide DSAR scoping and strategy, our team provide specialist support and guidance through collection to review (combining AI-powered technology to sift and expert legal reviewers to refine) and preparation of the response.
Strategy and scope
Before we start, we begin with understanding the intent behind the DSAR to agree scope for data collection and strategy regarding validity, proportionality and response.
Defensible collection
We apply digital forensic capability to ensure data for the DSAR is collected defensibly. We can include suggestions on what to collect to avoid over- or under-collection and ensure all metadata is preserved.
Microsoft 365 collections
Our team has Microsoft Purview eDiscovery expertise to support data collection for DSARs in M365 environments and provide guidance about best practice.
DSAR data processing
Our highly skilled team use our AI-powered eDiscovery platform to filter the signal from the noise – identifying likely documents of interest and pre-populating selected PII data points
Legal review
We work alongside your chosen legal reviewer to validate and confirm the data for the DSAR response. We can also offer the services of trusted LPOs for outsourced legal review.
Redaction and response
We use tools for efficient and effective redaction and validation that balances data subject rights with the privacy of other individuals and sensitive company information.
Why choose Salient?
Salient’s years of digital forensic experience and understanding of forensic data collection, combined with AI-powered technology and expert legal advice, make us the ideal solutions partner to support both small-scale, high risk DSARs or cope with large volumes using complex datasets across multiple jurisdictions. We’re able to harness technology to accelerate the whole process and deliver a solution that is cost-effective, defensible and robust.
Defensible, robust processes
Our extensive digital forensic expertise ensures data is collected, managed, and reviewed in a defensible, robust manner.
Access to advanced technology
Our AI-powered technology streamlines the DSAR process, enhancing speed, accuracy, and cost-effectiveness
Guidance to handle complex DSARs
We support clients through complex, large-scale cases and high-risk individual requests, delivering practical DSAR solutions across multiple jurisdictions.