AI engineering glossary · AI ethics law product
What is data subject?
Data subject: In the GDPR, the living person to whom personal data relates. Such individuals hold rights over their data, including access, correction, erasure and objection, which organisations must be able to honour.
Data subject: an example
A customer in France who asks a company for a copy of the data it holds about her is exercising rights as a data subject.
Related terms
More AI ethics law product terms
- Datasheet for datasets
- Deflection rate
- Demographic parity
- Differential privacy
- Disparate impact
- DP-SGD
- DPDP Act 2023
- DPDP Rules 2025
Where you learn it
Data subject is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.