Handle subject data requests
Microsoft Purview for data protection officers. Handle a subject data request with eDiscovery: one case per request with eDiscovery (Premium), tenant-wide search for the person's name, email address and customer number, statistics, a review set, analytics, tags for each decision, redaction committed to PDF, export with item report and redaction, download from Process manager, and documentation with the case, tags, item report and audit log.
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PRIVACY WITH MICROSOFT PURVIEW
Handle subject data requests
Ada Admin
Dana DPO
Eli Employee
A REQUEST ARRIVES
"Send me all the data you have about me"
AFTER THE EXPORT
Show what you did, then clean up
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Summary of collected data estimates arranged by top indicators
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People, sensitive information types, item classes and errors.
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Cases › SDR 2026-014 Jane Smith › Review sets › SDR 2026-014 Jane Smith
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SDR 2026-014 Jane Smith
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Analytics done · Representative items: 186
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⌂ Tag files
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412 items
Source
Plain text
Annotate
Metadata
✎ Draw
▬ Redact
Support case notes.docx
Note:
Jane Smith
called about her address change.
Note:
Her neighbor Tom Berg
also complained.
Note:
Customer no. 48213
is updated.
Note:
Tom's phone: 55 12 34 56
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RESPONSE
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Not relevant
Cases › SDR 2026-014 Jane Smith › Review sets › Manage tags
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Tag group names are available as a metadata category in the review set. Each tag group shows up as its own column.
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Collect items that match your search query and add them to a review set.
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"All people and groups" should include guest users
"All people and groups" should include departed users
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Indexed items that match your search query
Messages and related items from mailboxes
Include full conversation for Copilot, Teams and Viva Engage
Organize conversations into HTML transcript
Chat messages are exported as HTML, not as PST or MSG.
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Create .PSTs for messages where possible
Create .msg files for messages
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SDR 2026-014
SDR 2026-014 Ja…
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Completed
SDR 2026-014 Ja…
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Name
SDR 2026-014
Status
Completed
Created by
dana@contoso.com
Duration
1 min, 30 sec
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Size
📁 Reports-SDR_2026-014-StartReviewSetExport
3.6 KB
📁 Items.1.001.SDR_2026-014
2.4 MB
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PRIVACY WITH MICROSOFT PURVIEW
Handle subject data requests
A person asks for a copy of their personal data.
We find it in Microsoft 365 with eDiscovery, read
only what matters, redact data about others, and
export a package to send within the deadline.
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