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Individual Rights

What is Individual Rights?

The set of rights granted to data subjects under privacy regulations, enabling them to exercise control over their personal data. Under GDPR, these include rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, and objection.

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Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as individual rights. The number is how many controls name both.

What the standards actually require on individual rights

Requirements naming individual rights across 3 standards, quoted from the control text.

The audit time for surveillance audits and for surveillance of the client between them. Certification bodies applying the standard read A.4 as providing for surveillance beyond the regular cycle where the AIMS manages high-risk AI systems or AI applied to sens...

iso-iec-42006-2025::A.4 · A.4 Audit time for the surveillance audit and client surveillance →

Sensitive and mission-critical applications carry access controls that restrict the functions available to users and other applications, understood by management for their functionality and vulnerabilities, with robust authentication matched to the application...

ffiec-it-examination-handbook::IS-II.C.15(b) · II.C.15(b) Application Access (Information Security) →

Guidance that open HCRD calls for clear organization and cooperation across functions, whatever the organization's size or kind. HR generally answers for the integrity and sustainability of five things: protecting workers' data privacy, data security and indiv...

iso-30414-2025::4.5.3 · Responsibility for data collection →

Questions people ask about individual rights

What is Individual Rights?
The set of rights granted to data subjects under privacy regulations, enabling them to exercise control over their personal data. Under GDPR, these include rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, and objection.
Why is Individual Rights important for compliance?
Individual Rights is a key concept in Privacy. Understanding individual rights helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 1,016 frameworks with 316K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Individual Rights?
Individual Rights appears in the requirement text of ISO/IEC 42006:2025, FFIEC IT Examination Handbook, ISO 30414:2025. Across these standards we have identified 4 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Individual Rights?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how individual rights applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 1,016 frameworks.

See how Individual Rights applies across compliance frameworks

Our platform maps 1,016 frameworks with 316K cross-framework control mappings. Explore how this concept is addressed across standards.

Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.