The guide is part of ORG’s Digital Rights Toolkit, designed to make data protection more accessible for communities often excluded from the digital system. It walks readers through the process of submitting Subject Access Requests (SARs) - formal inquiries that allow individuals to ask any organisation, including government bodies, what personal data it holds about them, how it is being used, and with whom it is shared.

The case centered on Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act and the use of a public dataset to improve algorithmic fairness.