Security News > 2023 > April > Consumers take data control into their own hands amid rising privacy concerns

Data Subject Requests, which are formal requests made by individuals to access, modify, or delete their personal data held by a company, increased by 72% from 2021 to 2022.

These numbers will continue to increase as new data privacy laws, like those in Virginia and Colorado, come into effect and focus attention on responsible data privacy practices.

Researchers also uncovered a surge of privacy requests - 52% of all requests - coming from states that have yet to adopt data privacy legislation.

In response to increasing privacy concerns, DataGrail set out to understand the impact of privacy awareness on organizations by analyzing how many privacy requests the average business can expect.

The report analyzes the number of privacy requests DataGrail processed in 2021 versus 2022 and creates a benchmark for businesses to calibrate the status of their privacy program.

2022 saw a 72% increase in the total volume of data privacy requests compared to 2021.

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