Digital Omnibus reality check: 83.5% of access requests not properly answered
A new analysis by privacy advocacy group noyb found that over eight years of sending GDPR data access requests to companies, only 16.5% received a satisfactory response. More than half of replies were incomplete, and nearly 30% of companies did not respond at all.
Why this matters: The right to access your own data is not a bonus feature. It is the foundation. You cannot fix wrong information, challenge illegal processing, or understand what a company knows about you if they simply ignore the request. This data shows most companies do, in fact, ignore it. That is not a compliance gap. It is a deliberate pattern. And the timing matters: noyb published this as industry lobbying pushes Brussels to weaken these very rights. The people asking for less enforcement are the same ones failing to comply with the rules that already exist.
Who should care: Lawyers · Privacy officers · AI governance · General readers · Policy
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