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.

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Analyst recognition

A Leader in privacy management

Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Privacy Management Software, Q4 2025, and in the IDC MarketScape for Data Privacy Compliance Software 2025

What it automates

From first consent to final deletion

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

Why privacy and compliance share a foundation

Compliance and privacy now answer for AI as well as data

Privacy and compliance teams answer to a rulebook that keeps growing: national privacy laws, industry controls, 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. The foundation is data discovery and classification, with access governance and AI governance extending it to who and what can reach personal data. Discovery runs continuously, not once, so every record, request and report reflects the estate as it is today.

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. Security teams use the same findings for data-level access context.

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.

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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.

Start here

Where privacy and compliance teams start

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 → Are all our privacy notices and policies up to date, everywhere they appear? Notices, terms and policies live in one versioned library with a full change history, presented by language, jurisdiction and brand, and updated by the privacy team without developer work. Notices and agreements →

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
Give security teams data-level access context for investigations, beyond system-level access
Find data no longer needed for its purpose, bring in its owner, and delete, minimize or de-identify it under retention and legal hold
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
Hundreds of 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 AI governance →

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
Flag the data AI should not connect to and the data that needs review first
Keep AI and personal data findings current as models, agents and systems change

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 policies change as laws, products and markets change. BigID keeps them in one versioned library, tracks every change, and lets the privacy team publish updates without a developer.

Manage privacy notices, terms, policies and agreements in one library
Create your own notices and agreements for policies unique to your business
Present notices by language, jurisdiction and brand, across banners, portals and forms
Version every notice and agreement, with a full history of what changed, when and by whom
Publish updates in minutes, with no code changes or developer releases
Keep every public-facing policy current and consistent across sites, apps and brands

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 →

FAQ

What privacy, compliance and security leaders ask first

How does BigID close a compliance gap?

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.

How do we move our privacy program from spreadsheets or another platform?

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.

What is privacy compliance automation?

It turns privacy obligations into tracked workflows run on live discovery. BigID finds personal data by context and entity, ties each record to a person, and runs consent, data rights requests, RoPA, assessments, vendor reviews, and compliance monitoring on those findings, so the program reflects the estate as it is today. It builds on data discovery and classification and data access governance.

How does BigID handle data subject access and deletion requests?

It finds one person's data across the estate and carries the request to fulfillment. Requests arrive through the Privacy Portal, identities are verified, the patented identity graph locates the person's data in structured, unstructured, SaaS, cloud, and AI systems, and access, portability, correction, and deletion run with legal hold and downstream impact checks through data lifecycle management.

Which regulations and frameworks does BigID support?

Privacy law, industry rules, security controls, and AI regulation, with your own added. Support spans 150+ privacy regulations worldwide, including GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, LGPD, and PIPEDA, plus NIST, OWASP, PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOX, and the EU AI Act, and you can extend the library with your own controls. BigID tracks regulatory change, and AI obligations connect to AI governance and data access governance.

Can the privacy program serve security teams too?

Yes, the same discovery gives security data-level context. BigID shows who and what can reach sensitive and personal data at the data itself, not only at the system, which helps security teams assess exposure during an investigation. Privacy and security work from one set of findings, and data access governance extends it to reviews and revocation.

Can privacy discovery help us retire data we no longer need?

It finds the data, the owner, and the reason it exists, then supports the action. BigID flags personal data that is no longer needed for its purpose, brings in the data owner, and supports deletion, minimization, or de-identification consistent with retention and legal hold. Data minimization and lifecycle management cover the wider program.

How does a privacy program prepare us for AI?

It starts with knowing which data AI should and should not reach. The personal and sensitive data already found and classified shows which systems AI should not connect to and which datasets need review first, so AI use starts from visibility. AI governance and AI assistant readiness carry that into policy and rollout.

Resources

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 →

Whitepaper How BigID Turns GDPR Into a Defensible, Provable Program Continuous visibility into personal data, with data subject rights, records of processing and breach notification automated. Read the whitepaper → Guide The EU AI Act and the AI Omnibus: A Complete Guide What the Omnibus moved, what still applies from August 2026, and the data governance high-risk AI will need. Read the guide → Datasheet BigID Privacy Portal Access, deletion, correction, opt-out and appeal requests, from intake and verification through fulfillment and enforcement. Read the datasheet →

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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