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.
Terms that appear alongside individual rights
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as individual rights. The number is how many controls name both.
- covered entity 2 shared controls
- breach notification 2 shared controls
- certification 2 shared controls
- hipaa 2 shared controls
- compliance 2 shared controls
- data protection 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern individual rights
What the standards actually require on individual rights
Requirements naming individual rights across 4 standards, quoted from the control text.
HITECH Subtitle D - strengthened individual rights. ELECTRONIC ACCESS (Section 17937; 45 CFR 164.524): individuals have RIGHT TO ACCESS PHI in DESIGNATED RECORD SET + receive in ELECTRONIC FORMAT if maintained electronically (e.g. EHR);
HITECH-SubtitleD-StrengthIndividualRights · HITECH Subtitle D - Strengthened Individual Rights (Electronic Access, Accounting of Disclosures, Restrictions, Sale Prohibition) →Per PDPA Singapore Access + Correction + Data Portability Obligations: implement individual rights. Requirements include (a) implement Access Obligation enabling individuals to request access to their personal data and disclosure of how it has been used or dis...
PDPASG-3 · Access, Correction, Data Portability, and Individual Rights →PI handled must be accurate and kept up to date to avoid adverse effects on individual rights and interests from inaccurate or incomplete data.
PIPL-Art8 · Quality of Personal Information →Establish ethical guidelines for data collection, usage, sharing, and monetization that respect individual rights.
DEM-1 · Data Ethics →Questions people ask about individual rights
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