Study on the Right to Access Under GDPR to Recommend Policy for Vietnam on Personal Data Protection

Abstract

The right to access is one of the control rights and represents an important element in enhancing users' control over personal data. The goal of the right to access is to provide comprehensive access to data about an individual's use of a service in a convenient, secure, private and free manner. This article introduces the content of the right to access under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), including the right to access anonymised data, the right to access shared data, linked databases, the right to access information about automated decision-making and exceptions to the right to access. From there, the article summarises and provides directions for improving Vietnamese law on personal data protection related to the right to access.