Forty per cent of consumers plan to make subject access requests according to a survey of 3,000 adults in Europe by a leading storage software vendor when GDPR comes into force. GDPR has reduced the time required by organisations to provide that information to within one month.

The survey found that 56% of respondents said they are not comfortable with companies storing personal information about them that they cannot currently access. At 56%, financial firms were top of sectors to expect data privacy requests, followed by social media firms (48%), retailers (46%), employers (24%) and healthcare providers (21%).With a much greater threat of fines for non-compliance with GDPR, it could be a difficult period for companies that haven’t taken the necessary steps to mitigate the risk of falling foul of the new regulations which gives consumers much greater control of the use of their personal data.