Expanding to Support EU Privacy Operations
Sylure's upload-based discovery, DSAR workflows, and governance controls apply to EU GDPR compliance. Identifier detection is currently optimised for UK formats, with EU-specific patterns on our roadmap.
Available Now
- Upload-based shadow data discovery across common export formats
- Personal data category detection (names, emails, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, sort codes, IBAN numbers, payment card numbers)
- DSAR Discovery Tool with subject search and bundle export
- Evidence masking and hash-first identity indexing
- Role-based access control and audit logging
- Retention controls and customer-controlled deletion
- Governance reporting and analytics
On Our Roadmap
- EU-specific identifier formats (e.g., national ID numbers for Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands)
- Multi-language content scanning (currently English-optimised)
- EU-specific DSAR response templates
- Cross-border transfer mapping
The personal data categories Sylure detects — names, email addresses, financial identifiers, health data markers — are the same under both UK GDPR and EU GDPR. The roadmap items above relate to country-specific identifier formats, not the categories themselves.
How Sylure Addresses EU GDPR
Areas where EU GDPR differs from or adds to UK GDPR, and how Sylure supports each.
Cross-border data flows (Chapter V)
Transfers of personal data to third countries require appropriate safeguards (SCCs, adequacy decisions, or BCRs).
How Sylure helps
Sylure helps you identify what personal data exists in your data holdings before transfer decisions are made. Discovery outputs can inform transfer impact assessments and support documentation requirements.
One-stop-shop mechanism
Organisations with establishments in multiple EU member states deal primarily with the supervisory authority of their main establishment.
How Sylure helps
Sylure's workspace model and scoped analytics allow privacy teams to manage discovery and DSAR workflows across datasets from different jurisdictions within a single platform, while maintaining separate audit trails.
Data Protection Officer requirement (Article 37)
Certain organisations must designate a DPO. The DPO needs visibility into processing activities and personal data holdings.
How Sylure helps
Sylure gives DPOs direct visibility into what personal data exists across uploads, how it's categorised, who reviewed it, and what actions were taken — without requiring them to access raw data.
Right to data portability (Article 20)
Data subjects have the right to receive their personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format.
How Sylure helps
DSAR exports are available in structured formats (Excel, JSON) designed for machine readability and downstream processing.
UK GDPR vs EU GDPR
Aspect
UK GDPR
EU GDPR
Supervisory authority
Fines
Transfer mechanism
Sylure support
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes — for the operational workflows (discovery, DSAR response, governance reporting). The personal data categories Sylure detects are the same under UK and EU GDPR. Country-specific EU identifier formats (e.g., German tax IDs) are on our roadmap.
Sylure currently processes English-language content. Multi-language support is planned. Structured data (CSVs, databases, JSON exports) works regardless of language.
Yes. The DSAR Discovery Tool searches for identifiers across all uploaded data, regardless of the subject's location. The workflow (search, consolidate, export) is the same.
Want to see how Sylure handles EU data?
Walk through discovery, DSAR response, and governance reporting — the same workflows, designed for cross-border compliance.