Digital Omnibus reality check: 83.5% of access requests not properly answered

Data Subject Rights The most commonly exercised right under the GDPR is the right of access to one’s personal data that is being processed by companies. After all, it’s often the prerequisite to know if there is inaccurate or unlawful personal data that needs to be corrected or deleted. However, a new analysis of noyb cases shows: Only 16.5% of all access requests noyb has sent to companies in the past 8 years received a satisfactory reply, while 53.7% of replies were incomplete – and almost 30% were not answered at all. In other words: while companies are lobbying Brussels to limit people’s right of access because of an alleged “abuse”, the real problem is non-compliance by these exact companies. No “abuse” by data subjects, but by companies. Following intense lobby pressure (especially by the German industry), the European Commission’s Digital Omnibus proposal argues that there’s a need to restrict data subject rights under the GDPR. Most notably, the proposed changes include a limit