The phrase "a data subject" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in legal and data protection contexts to refer to an individual whose personal data is being processed.
Example: "Under the GDPR, a data subject has the right to access their personal data held by organizations."
Alternatives: "an individual whose data is processed" or "a person whose information is collected".
Legally the patient is referred to as a data subject.
Richard Allan, Facebook's director of policy for Europe, Middle East and Africa, said: "The core concept that you as a data subject should be able to delete your personal data is absolutely reasonable.
And as a data subject (the person about whom the data relates), while I might have some legal redress if the data about me leaks, what I really want to know is that when I give it to you to look after, you're not going to scatter it to the corners of the world for everyone to see.
A data subject is quite free to give any number of specific consents to different processing operations.
The "processor" (i.e. SMAT-provider) of such illegitimately published "sensitive data" of a "data subject" commits an activity relevant in terms of data protection principles.
A data subject cannot understand the personal or social significance of an 'act of processing' if they do not know which data will be processed.
The GDPR defines pseudonymization as "the processing of personal data in such a way that the data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information" [49].
It means that any information, which can be used in the right context for the identification of a person ("data subject") is personal data, even though the information in itself (outside the right context) does not directly identify the data subject [21].
The vital interests of a hypothetical patient are not vital interests of an actual data subject (and the GDPR tests are demonstrably unmet).
A fact is a piece of data subject to objective, independent, and sometimes scientific verification.
They are arguing about organisations' responsibilities in holding and processing personal data, and about the rights of an individual (the "data subject") to know how their data is being used.
