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Automate Privacy Operations for the AI Era

BigID helps you automate privacy operations by streamlining data discovery, automating DSR and deletion workflows, and enabling you to track and manage consent. With built-in AI-driven insights, BigID simplifies regulatory compliance for GDPR, CPRA, EU AI Act, DORA, and more.

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Recognized as the #1 industry-leading data security, privacy, and AI data management solution

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Data Rights Automation

Automate data rights fulfillment from access to deletion.

BigID automates DSR intake, verification, and fulfillment—whether it’s access, deletion, rectification, or portability—across structured and unstructured data. Reduce manual effort, accelerate response times, and stay compliant with GDPR, CPRA, LGPD, and other global regulations. 

Consent Governance

Take control of consent and preference management with BigID’s centralized consent governance.

Automatically discover where consent records live, enforce policies across data sources, and maintain an auditable trail. Ensure that marketing, analytics, and data-sharing practices stay aligned with evolving consent requirements under GDPR, CPRA, and beyond.

 

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RoPA

Simplify regulatory reporting with automated, always up-to-date RoPAs.

BigID discovers and maps data flows across systems, processes, and vendors to build a centralized inventory of processing activities. Gain visibility into who’s using personal data, why, and where—so you can demonstrate compliance with GDPR, CPRA, and other evolving privacy policies.

Privacy Impact Assessment

Quickly assess risk with Privacy Impact Assessments.

Streamline privacy risk assessments for new projects, vendors, and data initiatives. BigID automates PIA and DPIA workflows with built-in templates, risk scoring, and approvals to identify potential data privacy risks early. Enable faster compliance sign-offs and reduce operational friction without sacrificing accuracy or oversight.

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Privacy Portal

Proactively manage privacy requests, preferences, and cookie consent.

Deliver transparency and build trust with a branded, self-service privacy portal. BigID’s portal enables individuals to submit DSRs, manage their preferences, and track request statuses in real-time, all while reducing your team’s workload. Give customers and employees more control over their data while ensuring your organization remains compliant.

BigID is a Market Leader in Data Privacy and Data Discovery

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BigID's data security and privacy-first posture brings with it purpose-built applications to reduce security and privacy risk, regardless of the data being in a structured data repository or on a file system.

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WHITE PAPER

The CPO’s Guide to Building End-to-End Privacy Automation at Scale

The role of the CPO is evolving — is your privacy program keeping up?

Today’s CPOs face more complexity than ever, from sprawling cloud environments and AI blind spots to mounting regulatory pressure. This white paper explores how to break through these challenges and build a privacy program that runs continuously—powered by automation, aligned to strategic risk, and ready to scale.

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 CASE STUDY

How Telenor Manages Their Data & Builds Customer Trust with BigID

See why Telenor turns to BigID to build customer trust, protect their customer data, and enable compliance... and why they say "Companies who use BigID are showing that they’re taking data seriously.” BigID has helped to streamline and automate their data processes to manage and protect sensitive customer data and achieve compliance with global regulations.

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 CASE STUDY

How The University of Maryland Saved $5 Million in Risk Exposure

The University of Maryland used BigID to uncover and reduce over $5M in data risk across 2.5PB of cloud storage. With deep discovery and classification across Google Drive, O365, and Box, they identified and cleaned up thousands of exposed PII records—boosting compliance, minimizing exposure, and improving visibility across their data.

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FAQ:

What is privacy automation? Privacy automation is the use of technology to streamline and scale privacy operations, including data discovery, data subject request (DSR) fulfillment, consent management, records of processing activities (RoPA), and privacy impact assessments. Instead of relying on manual processes and spreadsheets, organizations use privacy automation platforms like BigID to reduce response times, maintain continuous compliance, and scale their privacy programs without proportionally increasing headcount.

How does BigID automate data subject requests (DSRs)? BigID automates the full DSR lifecycle: intake, identity verification, data location across all sources, fulfillment (access, deletion, rectification, portability), and audit-ready response documentation. The platform automatically locates all relevant personal data across structured and unstructured sources, routes fulfillment tasks to the right data owners, and generates compliance records. This reduces DSR response times from weeks to hours while maintaining compliance with GDPR, CPRA, LGPD, and other global data rights regulations.

What is consent governance and why does it matter? Consent governance is the practice of managing, enforcing, and auditing consent and preference records across an organization’s data estate. It matters because consent is a foundational legal basis for data processing under GDPR, CPRA, and other privacy regulations, and mismanaged consent creates compliance risk, regulatory penalties, and loss of customer trust. BigID’s consent governance capabilities automatically discover consent records, enforce policies at the data level, and maintain auditable trails of consent status.

What is a Record of Processing Activities (RoPA) and does BigID generate them? A Record of Processing Activities (RoPA) is a documented inventory of all personal data processing activities within an organization, required under GDPR Article 30. It must detail what personal data is processed, for what purpose, under what legal basis, who has access, and how long it is retained. BigID generates and maintains RoPAs automatically by discovering and mapping data flows across systems, processes, and vendors in real time, eliminating the need for manual surveys and ensuring your records are always current.

What regulations does BigID help with for privacy compliance? BigID supports privacy compliance across a broad range of global regulations including GDPR, CPRA/CCPA, LGPD, HIPAA, DORA, the EU AI Act, PDPA, and dozens of other national and regional privacy laws. BigID’s regulatory templates, automated data mapping, and compliance reporting capabilities help organizations demonstrate accountability and respond to regulatory inquiries with audit-ready documentation.

What is a privacy impact assessment (PIA) and when is it required?
A privacy impact assessment (PIA), also called a data protection impact assessment (DPIA) under GDPR, is a structured process for identifying and mitigating privacy risks associated with data processing activities. GDPR Article 35 requires DPIAs for processing that is likely to result in high risk to individuals’ rights and freedoms, including large-scale profiling, systematic monitoring, and processing of sensitive data categories. BigID automates PIA/DPIA workflows with built-in templates, risk scoring, approval routing, and remediation tracking.

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