Information Rights Management (IRM) is a subset of Digital Rights Management pertaining primarily to documents and email communication. The principles behind IRM are well understood: control who may open a document, and encrypting to protect the document. Users are still in the loop, and managing their own keys is a conundrum. IRM still has a long way to go in managing user behavior, with researchers discussing various solutions at conferences such as SOUPS. It is safer to automatically beaconize the documents whenever they are opened.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3269504/irm-and-gdpr-users-are-still-in-the-loop.html