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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 4 standards, quoted from the control text.

HITECH Act3 controls

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

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 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Individual Rights?
Individual Rights appears in the requirement text of HITECH Act, PDPA Singapore, China Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), DAMA-DMBOK2 - Data Management Body of Knowledge (2nd Edition). Across these standards we have identified 8 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 686 frameworks.

See how Individual Rights applies across compliance frameworks

Our platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings. Explore how this concept is addressed across standards.

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