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Solutions Hub: Privacy and Compliance

Privacy automation and compliance for the AI era

BigID automates the privacy program end to end, from the first consent a visitor gives to the last deletion request, with tracker discovery, cookie and consent management, data rights, RoPA and assessments, vendor and breach workflows, and a portal your customers and employees use directly. The same platform checks data, AI and the access to both against the regulations and controls you choose, shows exactly what to change, and carries the fix through to a report leadership can read.

What it covers
Global and local privacy and protection frameworks
150+ privacy regulations worldwide, plus the industry, security and AI rules alongside them, extensible with your own
What it automates
Your daily compliance operations
Rights requests, consent, RoPA, assessments, cross-border transfers and vendor reviews, run as tracked workflows
What it is built on
Personal data found by context, entity and person
A patented identity graph that knows whose data it is, wherever it lives, including in AI
Where privacy and compliance are now

Compliance and privacy now answer for AI as well as data

Compliance is one of the main reasons security teams adopt DSPM, and the rulebook keeps growing: industry controls, national privacy laws, and AI obligations layered on top as countries extend privacy law to cover AI. BigID automates privacy operations on the live estate, and checks compliance on the same foundation, carrying every gap through to a fix.

Compliance checked against the real estate

Scores come from discovery, classification and access findings, across data and AI, so each control's status reflects what is actually stored, used and reachable today.

A fix for every gap

Each violation arrives with step by step instructions and a workflow to execute the change, and progress is tracked until the environment is back in compliance and leadership has the report.

Privacy operations on the same foundation

Consent, data rights, RoPA and assessments draw on identity-aware discovery, so a deletion request finds a person's data wherever it lives and a RoPA reflects the processing that really happens.

See it operate

Watch it work

Compliance Dashboard Demo | Simplify NIST, ISO, HIPAA, PCI & More with BigID

Compliance tracked against NIST, ISO, HIPAA, PCI and more from one dashboard, with the failing controls, the affected data and the path back into compliance.

In this hub
Start here

What privacy and compliance teams need answered, and where BigID answers it

Whose personal data do we hold, and where is it? BigID finds personal and sensitive data by context and entity across structured, unstructured, SaaS, cloud and AI systems, then its identity graph correlates each record to the person it belongs to, with residency, ownership and access attached. Personal data and identity → Which personal data crosses borders, and is every transfer covered? Residency comes straight from discovery, so BigID maps where personal data lives and where it travels, alerts when it leaves a jurisdiction without safeguards, and records the safeguards for each transfer. Cross-border transfers → Where do we stand against GDPR, HIPAA, PCI or the EU AI Act today? Choose the regulations and controls that apply from BigID's pre-populated library, add your own, and see where data, AI and access stand in near real time, with instructions and a workflow for every gap. Regulatory compliance → How do we get the RoPA and assessments off spreadsheets? Migrate what you have, then run business process records, assessments and a risk register shaped to each line of business, enriched by live discovery, with agents gathering the evidence. RoPA, assessment and risk → Which vendors hold our customers' data, and whose data was exposed in a breach? Vendor profiles and assessments update from live discovery, and breach impact analysis ties exposed data back to the people it belongs to, with regulator-ready reports and notifications. Vendor risk and breach → How does personal data flow through the business, and into AI? Agentic data mapping keeps a flow map for each business process current, and BigID shows which AI models and agents reach personal data, with AI risk assessments beside your PIAs and DPIAs. AI governance and data mapping → What pixels, cookies and trackers are running on our sites and apps? BigID scans web and mobile sites for cookies, pixels, beacons, scripts and tags, classifies each one with AI, and captures consent with banners that adapt to each visitor's location. Trackers and cookie consent → How do we answer access, portability and deletion requests at scale? Requests arrive through a branded Privacy Portal, BigID's patented identity graph finds the person's data across the estate, and review, reporting by brand, and responsible deletion with legal hold safeguards run automatically. Data rights and Privacy Portal → Are we honoring each person's choices across every channel, country and brand? Universal Consent gathers consent from web, mobile, API and offline sources into one profile, the preference center lets people change it, and each decision syncs to downstream systems and to BigID as tags. Universal Consent → Can we prove who accepted which version of our privacy notice? Notices and agreements are managed and versioned in one library, presented by language, jurisdiction and brand, and every acceptance is recorded with an audit trail. Notices and agreements →

Privacy automation, from request to fulfillment

A privacy request touches every system that holds a person's data. BigID carries each one from intake to fulfillment in one flow: verify who is asking, find their data wherever it lives, review it, then deliver, delete or correct it and enforce the person's choices downstream, with every step logged.

Intake and verifyEvery channel, one queue. Requests arrive through a branded portal, forms, APIs or internal teams, identities are verified, and each request is routed by type, jurisdiction and brand.

FindOne person's data, everywhere. The patented identity graph correlates identifiers and finds the data belonging to that person across structured, unstructured, SaaS, cloud and AI systems.

FulfillDeliver, delete, correct or opt out. Reports go out by brand, and deletions run with legal hold and downstream impact checks.

Enforce and proveChoices that stick. Preferences propagate to downstream systems and to BigID as tags, while SLAs, KPIs and the audit trail show how well each request was handled.

Requests arrive from Privacy portal Web and mobile APIs Internal teams Employees Intake routed by type, jurisdiction and brand Verify identity checked, natively or through a third party Find the identity graph locates one person's data across the whole estate Review found data checked before anything is sent Fulfill deliver, delete, correct or opt out Access and portability reports, by brand Responsible deletion legal hold and downstream checks Preferences enforced in downstream systems Tags on the catalog so policy follows the choice Tracked end to end every step logged, in any language SLA tracking Response KPIs Audit trail BigID identity-aware discovery personal, sensitive and inferred data, correlated to the people it belongs to Cloud SaaS On-prem AI Access, portability, deletion, correction, opt-out and appeal requests, including rights over AI training data, model inputs and outputs
Capabilities

Privacy operations and consumer-facing privacy, automated on one platform

A privacy program has two sides, and they are often owned by different teams. Privacy operations run inside the business: knowing whose data you hold, staying compliant, documenting processing, managing vendors and transfers, and governing AI. Consumer-facing privacy is what customers and employees see: the banner, the portal, the preference center and the notice. BigID runs both on the same discovery, so a choice made on the outside is enforced on the inside.

Privacy operations

For the DPO, privacy office and compliance team running the program inside the business.

Personal data discovery, classification and identity correlation

Privacy runs on knowing whose data it is. BigID finds personal and sensitive data by its context and the entities in it, then the patented identity graph ties each record back to a person, so every request, consent decision, record of processing and breach notice starts from the real estate.

  • Discover personal data across structured, unstructured and semi-structured sources in cloud, SaaS and on-prem, at petabyte scale
  • Classify by context and entity with NLP, contextual named entity recognition and document classifiers, so a name or number is recognized by what surrounds it
  • 2,000+ pretrained classifiers for PII, PHI, financial and regulated data, in any language and global format
  • Composite classifiers that catch combinations of attributes that identify a person together
  • Patented identity graph that correlates records to the individual they belong to, customer, employee or patient
  • Identifier correlation that unifies email, phone, username and account IDs into one profile
  • Find inferred and derived personal data wherever it appears, with no schema knowledge needed
  • Residency, ownership, purpose and access mapped to every personal data finding
  • Personal data in AI: training sets, vector databases, model inputs and outputs
  • Prompt-based classification and natural language search to describe what you are looking for in plain language

Regulatory compliance, control monitoring and cross-border transfers

Choose the regulations and controls that apply from a pre-populated list BigID keeps expanding, add your own or a partner's, and monitor data, AI and access against them. Cross-border transfers sit here too, since residency comes straight from discovery: see where personal data lives, where it travels, and whether each transfer is covered.

  • Map cross-border transfers by the residency of the data and the country it moves to
  • Localization policies that alert when personal data leaves a jurisdiction without safeguards
  • Cross-border transfer workflows, with the safeguards for each transfer recorded as evidence
  • 30+ regulations and controls out of the box, including NIST, OWASP, PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOX, GDPR and the EU AI Act
  • Extensible framework for adding customer and partner specific regulations
  • Near real time compliance tracking and violation alerting, across data, AI and access
  • Step by step instructions for bringing each control back into compliance
  • Dedicated remediation workflow, with tracking through to closure and reporting for leadership
  • Regulatory change tracked by BigID's legal and policy experts, with templates and workflows updated as laws change
  • AgentIQ agents that gather evidence, build custom reports and remediate, from BigID or from Claude, Copilot, GPT and Gemini

Business processes (RoPA), privacy assessment and risk management

Document every business process that touches personal data, assess it, and manage the risk it carries, with records shaped to how each line of business works and grounded in live discovery.

  • Business process records with purposes, data categories, lawful basis, recipients, retention and vendors
  • RoPA records enriched continuously from live discovery, exportable in regulator-ready formats
  • Flexible workflows and questionnaire formats for each line of business
  • PIAs, DPIAs, privacy threshold and vendor assessments, from templates or your own
  • Assessments triggered automatically when a new project, system or data asset appears
  • Suggested answers grounded in live data, and AgentIQ automation for evidence gathering
  • Risk register with likelihood and impact scoring, owners, and remediation tasks tracked to closure
  • Approvals of up to five levels, with an audit trail on every decision
  • Simple migration from spreadsheets or other platforms

Vendor risk and breach response

Personal data leaves the building through vendors and, sometimes, through an incident. BigID ties both back to the data itself, so a vendor record or a breach notice reflects what was really shared, and whose it was.

  • Vendor profiles with purposes, data categories and residency, updated as discovery changes
  • Third-party and AI vendor risk assessments, pre-populated with discovered context
  • Workflows for vendor onboarding, approval, monitoring and termination
  • Data flow maps showing what is shared, where it moves, and which vendors receive it
  • Identity-aware breach impact analysis: whose data was exposed, which categories, in which systems and countries
  • Regulator-ready breach reports and notification of affected individuals under GDPR, CPRA, HIPAA, LGPD and more
  • Masking, redaction and tokenization to minimize exposure of personal data

AI governance and data mapping

Privacy teams now answer for AI, and for the data maps that show how personal data flows through the business. BigID keeps both current from live discovery, with agents mapping the flows.

See the AI governance hub →
  • Agentic data mapping that generates and maintains data flow maps for each business process
  • Data flows visualized across environments: where personal data sits, how it moves, and who receives it
  • Discover AI models, agents and copilots in use, sanctioned and shadow, and the personal data they reach
  • AI risk assessments aligned to the EU AI Act and the NIST AI RMF, run beside PIAs and DPIAs
  • Personal and regulated data flagged in training sets before it reaches a model
  • Consent and opt-outs for AI and automated decision making enforced on the data AI uses
Consumer-facing privacy

For the teams who own the customer and employee experience of privacy: web, digital, marketing and customer operations.

Tracker discovery and cookie consent

Every pixel, cookie and tag on a site or app is a point where personal data is collected and often shared. BigID finds and classifies them, then captures and enforces consent with banners that adapt to each visitor's location and law.

  • Scan websites and mobile sites for cookies, pixels, beacons, scripts, tags and third-party trackers
  • Classify each tracker with AI, including unknown technologies, and inventory it inside BigID
  • Customizable, multilingual cookie banners that adapt to visitor location and local regulation
  • Consent for mobile apps as well as websites
  • Global Privacy Control signals honored, with IAB TCF support
  • Cross-domain and cross-device consent for signed-in visitors
  • Consent expiration, and a consent log with export for audit
  • Separate configurations for multinational organizations and individual brands

Data rights automation and Privacy Portal

A branded portal where customers and employees make requests, and the automation behind it. BigID's identity graph finds the data belonging to one person across the whole estate, then automates the review, the report and the deletion.

  • Privacy Portal for consumer and employee requests, in the cloud or on-prem
  • Access, portability, deletion, correction, opt-out and appeal requests
  • Identity verification, and routing by request type, jurisdiction and brand
  • Patented identity graph that finds a specific person's data across the data estate
  • Automated discovery and review of each data subject's data before anything is sent
  • Access and portability reporting by brand
  • Responsible disposition for deletion requests, with safeguards for legal hold and downstream impact
  • Rights extended to AI: training data, model inputs, inferred attributes and outputs
  • SLA tracking and integrated KPIs for response performance and compliance
  • Multilingual, with self-service branding, forms and reports

Notices and agreements

Privacy notices, terms and consent agreements are promises the business makes. BigID manages them in one place, presents the right version to each person, and records who accepted what, and when.

  • Manage privacy notices, terms and consent agreements in one library
  • Define your own agreements, consent topics and purposes for unique policies
  • Present notices by language, jurisdiction and brand, across banners, portals and forms
  • Version every notice and agreement, and record which version each person accepted
  • Collect fresh agreement when a notice changes
  • An evidence-grade audit trail of acceptance, ready for a regulator
Coverage

The rules you answer to, and every place personal data is collected

Privacy support spans 150+ global regulations, industry and AI rules come pre-mapped and keep expanding, and consent and rights reach every channel people use to share data with you.

Security controls

NIST, CIS, OWASP, ISO 27001 and SAIF

Industry regulation

PCI DSS for payments, HIPAA for health data, SOX for financial reporting

Privacy law

GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, LGPD, PIPEDA, and US state privacy laws

AI regulation

The EU AI Act, the NIST AI RMF, and privacy laws extended to cover AI

Web and mobile sites

Cookies, pixels, beacons, scripts and tags, found and classified

Consent channels

Web, mobile, API, cookie banners and offline forms

Brands and jurisdictions

Separate brands and business units, with national and supranational rules applied

The data estate

Structured and unstructured data across cloud, SaaS and on-prem, plus AI training data and outputs

Frameworks and regulations NIST OWASP PCI DSS HIPAA SOX GDPR CCPA / CPRA EU AI Act Your own and partner controls
Proof

A Leader in privacy management, by Forrester and IDC

Analyst recognition

  • A Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Privacy Management Software, Q4 2025, with the highest possible score in 19 criteria
  • A Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Data Privacy Compliance Software 2025 Vendor Assessment
  • A Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Sensitive Data Discovery And Classification Solutions, Q2 2026
  • Ranked #1 in data classification by Intuit, across 20 vendors

“Native controls on data, including datasets for AI use cases, are unmatched.”

The Forrester Wave™: Privacy Management Software, Q4 2025

Read about the Forrester evaluation → Read about the IDC MarketScape →

From the field

“We needed to automate processes and data management across systems for the data of a few million customers: from prepaid customers to mobile to broadband, that's a lot of systems and data. BigID was the one solution that did this in the most efficient and sophisticated way, and had more use cases we could add on moving forward.”

Peter Wigren, Privacy Ambassador, Telenor

Read the Telenor story →

The University of Maryland removed 27,000+ records of sensitive PII from 2.5 petabytes of cloud storage and cut its risk exposure by more than $5M.

University of Maryland

Read the UMD case study →
Before you commit

What privacy, compliance and security leaders ask first

What happens after a control fails?

BigID tells you how to fix it and runs the fix. Each violation carries step by step instructions and a dedicated remediation workflow, progress is tracked until the control reads compliant, and leadership sees it in product or in an exported report. Agents can gather the evidence and carry out the remediation too.

We already run privacy on spreadsheets or another platform. How hard is the move?

RoPA and assessments migrate from spreadsheets or other platforms, and from there they are enriched by live discovery rather than surveys alone. Consent, rights and the portal run on the same identity-aware findings, so each part of the program gets more accurate as the estate is scanned.

How does the program keep up as privacy law extends to AI?

BigID keeps the library growing, and you can add to it. New regulations and controls join the pre-populated list, customer and partner rules sit beside them, consent captures AI preferences, and dedicated AI risk assessments run next to PIAs and DPIAs.

Take it further

The detail behind the privacy program, and the regulation driving it

Buyer's guide / start here
The CPO's Guide to Building End-to-End Privacy Automation at Scale

A maturity path from spreadsheets and intake forms to continuous, automated privacy operations that regulators can see enforced.

Read the guide →

Bring one privacy request or one framework. We will run it live.

A deletion request, a consent audit, or the GDPR, HIPAA or EU AI Act controls you report against. We will find the person's data, or show where you stand and what to change, on your own estate.

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