The SPECIAL-K Personal Data Processing Transparency and Compliance Platform [article]

Sabrina Kirrane, Javier D. Fernández, Piero Bonatti, Uros Milosevic, Axel Polleres, Rigo Wenning
2021 arXiv   pre-print
The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) brings new challenges for companies who must ensure they have an appropriate legal basis for processing personal data and must provide transparency with respect to personal data processing and sharing within and between organisations. Additionally, when it comes to consent as a legal basis, companies need to ensure that they comply with usage constraints specified by data subjects. This paper presents the policy language and supporting
more » ... ogies and vocabularies, developed within the SPECIAL EU H2020 project, which can be used to represent data usage policies and data processing and sharing events. We introduce a concrete transparency and compliance architecture, referred to as SPECIAL-K, that can be used to automatically verify that data processing and sharing complies with the data subjects consent. Our evaluation, based on a new compliance benchmark, shows the efficiency and scalability of the system with increasing number of events and users.
arXiv:2001.09461v3 fatcat:civtdwxnmrcrfi7bsq2a6ihsq4