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TruePrivacy + Slack

Receive DSR notifications and privacy workflow updates in Slack.

Auth: OAuth 2.0
Setup time: 3 minutes

Overview

Slack is the communication hub for modern teams. TruePrivacy integrates with Slack to deliver real-time privacy workflow notifications directly to your team's channels — ensuring that DSR assignments, approaching deadlines, breach alerts, and compliance updates reach the right people instantly without requiring them to log into TruePrivacy.

The integration also allows teams to discuss and collaborate on privacy matters within Slack, with context cards that summarize the relevant TruePrivacy workflow without requiring channel members to switch between tools.

What TruePrivacy can do

Workflow Notifications
Team Collaboration

Data types accessed

  • Workflow notification metadata
  • DSR status updates
  • Alert summaries

DSR capabilities

  • Receive DSR assignment and deadline notifications in Slack
  • Get breach alert notifications in real time
  • Route privacy task assignments to team members via Slack

How it works

  1. 1

    Connect TruePrivacy to your Slack workspace via OAuth 2.0, selecting the channels to post notifications to.

  2. 2

    Configure which TruePrivacy events should generate Slack notifications — DSR assignments, deadline alerts, breach notifications, and regulatory updates.

  3. 3

    TruePrivacy posts formatted notification cards to the configured channels with direct links to the relevant workflow in TruePrivacy.

  4. 4

    Team members can respond to notifications from within Slack, triggering actions in TruePrivacy via Slack's interactive components.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. TruePrivacy supports routing different notification types to different Slack channels — for example, breach alerts to a security channel, DSR deadline reminders to the privacy team channel, and regulatory updates to a compliance channel.

No. TruePrivacy's Slack notifications contain only workflow metadata (DSR reference numbers, deadline dates, alert types) — not the personal data of data subjects. This ensures that your Slack workspace does not become an additional personal data processor.

Yes. TruePrivacy's Slack integration supports interactive components that allow team members to claim DSR assignments, mark tasks as complete, or acknowledge alerts from within Slack without leaving the app.

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