For instance, the United States, Singapore, Brazil, and countries in Europe have all developed laws that regulate access to personal data as privacy protection.
[2] The aspirational Sustainable Development Goal 16, target 9, calls for the provision of legal identity for all human beings.
[5] The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has considered it "necessary to provide more precise guidance on how the right of access has to be implemented in different situations".
[6] When the EU Directive is transposed into Member State national law, the right of access may be suspended or restricted, as in the case of Germany in Article 34 of its Bundesdatenschutzgesetz.
Access to personal data is laid out as part of Part IV, chapter 21 which states that on request of an individual, an organization shall, as soon as reasonably possible, provide the individual with:[9] In the United Kingdom, the website of the Information Commissioner's Office states regarding Subject Access Requests (SARs):[10] You have the right to find out if an organization is using or storing your personal data.
This example demonstrates that a European-style conception of privacy does not necessarily have to be perceived by American actors as unduly imposing new restrictions on free speech by data subjects.