Node Zero community launches Privacy Legislation Grid
Updated: Mar 3, 2022
UPDATE: The Privacy Grid has been developed as a web app and combined into a multi-tool resource called the 'Data Privacy Gateway'. Check it out here and please remember to leave some feedback by clicking the green button in the header!
In recent times, it is rare for a week to go by without a new privacy law being announced somewhere in the World.
For privacy professionals, keeping track of the additions, changes, and inter-dependencies within this rapidly-expanding legal patchwork has become a serious challenge.
This growing complexity was the inspiration for the creation of the Data Privacy Legislation Grid which is freely available to members of the free Data Collaboration Alliance community.
The grid is hosted on a Dataware platform that supports a data linking capability that enables users to navigate among and between datasets as well data collaboration features that support crowd-sourced contributions.
Advanced research + reference tool
The Privacy Grid offers an in-depth taxonomy for viewing data privacy laws, discovering their interdependencies, and finding their commonalities.
Each law in the Privacy Grid is classified in multiple ways - including entirely unique ontologies:
Scope of Law (Comprehensive, Sectoral, Topical, etc)
Class of Law (based on Banisar Model, 1999)
Type of Law (i.e. Rules, Rights, Policing based on the Jockisch Model, 2021)
Who the law Protects
Who the law Regulates
What Information the law targets
What Sector the law primarily targets
Other data points include:
Details of Citation and Jurisdiction
Details of Scope
Origin Story
Descriptive text in many lengths and flavors
Enforcement Info
Data Subject Access Rights
Consent & Notification
Data Lifecycle Info
Legislative Requirements
Reference URLs
Simple navigation
The dataset offers multiple navigational elements to make the experience easier:
Color-coding for quick discovery of laws by type and pattern detection
Pre-filtered views for laws by type, country, and bookmarked laws
Advanced filters
Use cases
The Data Privacy Legislation Grid is intended for use by a variety of professionals who stand to benefit from free access to the details of Data Privacy Laws from multiple jurisdictions:
Role | Benefit |
​Data consultants | ​Inform assessments |
​Privacy lawyers | Augment case research |
Developers | De-risk IT developments |
​Researchers | De-risk analytics projects |
Compliance teams | Sanity check workflows |
Privacy students | Support certification studies |
Collaborate for data quality
Members are invited to collaborate on the Data Privacy Legislation Grid in different ways, including:
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Contribute as data custodian
Members are encouraged to become "custodians" for laws (e.g. laws for children, surveillance laws, South African laws, UK laws etc) for which they have special insight or interest.
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Members can click below to login to Node Zero and access the Privacy Grid!
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The Node Zero community is free to join for data privacy, data protection, data law, data compliance, and data management professionals.