Lesson 10 of 33
What the assistant can and cannot see for you
What you will be able to do
This lesson is for everyone who uses the Compliance Assistant. The assistant reads each module with the rights of the person asking. The Data Protection Officer's role includes the assistant and Data Protection, but not Tax. You will ask, as her, about her own module, about tax, and about the compliance scores, and read how the assistant answers when a module is closed to her.
Before you start
- You are signed in as the Data Protection Officer of Meridian Souq Trading LLC.
- The company holds the processing activity of lesson 3 and the three tax transactions of lesson 1.
Steps
- 1
Look at the menu as the Data Protection Officer
Signed in as the Data Protection Officer, on her own page, Data Protection, look at the left menu. There is no Tax group: her role does not let her open Tax Intelligence. The speech bubble at the top right is there, because her role includes the assistant.
- 2
Open the AI Assistant page
Scroll the left menu to its end, open Tools under More, and choose AI Assistant.
- Select Tools
- Select AI Assistant
- 3
Ask about her own module
Type: How many processing activities and data subject requests do we have?
- Type Question box:
How many processing activities and data subject requests do we have?
- Type Question box:
- 4
Send it and read the answer
Select Send. The assistant reads Data Protection, which she may open, and reports one active processing activity, Online order delivery records, no transfers abroad, and no data subject requests. That matches the module. It also states the company's response period for requests: 30 days, extendable once, as a company policy, because the data protection law itself does not yet fix a number of days. A Sources passage on data subject rights is shown under the answer.
- Select Send

- 5
Ask about a module she may not open
Now type the question the compliance officer asked in lesson 6: Summarise the tax transactions recorded for this company, with amounts.
- Type Question box:
Summarise the tax transactions recorded for this company, with amounts…
- Type Question box:
- 6
Send it and read the refusal
Select Send. The reply is short. I can't show you this. Tax transactions needs the permission Tax, Transactions, View on this company, which you don't hold. Who can grant it: Layla Hassan and Omar Khalid, the organisation's access administrators. No figures are given, and there is no Confidence figure, because nothing was answered.
- Select Send
- 7
Ask for the compliance scores
Type: What are our compliance scores for each module?
- Type Question box:
What are our compliance scores for each module?
- Type Question box:
- 8
Send it and read which scores she gets
Select Send. The answer says that, with her permissions, the only module visible to her is Data Protection, and gives its score: 100 per cent, low risk. The scores of Tax and the other modules are not shown to her. Remember what that 100 per cent rests on: one processing activity and no requests. A score describes the records a module holds, not how well the company protects personal data.
- Select Send
How to check it worked
The assistant reported the data protection records, refused the tax transactions with I can't show you this, naming the permission and the administrators, and gave a compliance score only for Data Protection.
Common mistakes
- Thinking the assistant is a way round permissions. It reads each module with your own rights. What you cannot open on screen, it does not fetch for you.
- Rewording the question to get the data anyway. The answer will be the same. If your work needs the records, ask one of the named administrators for access.
- Reading a score as a full assessment. A module score is worked out from the records the module holds, and a nearly empty module can score well.
Check your understanding
1. The Data Protection Officer asks the assistant for the tax transactions. What happens?
- A.She gets the full list
- B.The assistant answers I can't show you this, names the permission she lacks and who can grant it
- C.She gets the totals only
- D.The assistant asks the tax manager
Show answer
Answer: B. The assistant answers I can't show you this, names the permission she lacks and who can grant it
Each module is read with the permissions of the person who is asking. Her roles do not include tax.
2. She asks for the compliance scores of every module. What does she get?
- A.All scores
- B.Only the scores of modules she may open
- C.No scores
- D.A random selection
Show answer
Answer: B. Only the scores of modules she may open
Scores are shown only for modules the person may view. The answer says the others need permissions she does not hold.