GDPRov is an OWL2 ontology to express provenance metadata of consent and data lifecycles towards documenting compliance for GDPR.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is an European law governing the use of consent and personal data. Some of its obligations involve concepts related to the lifecycles of consent and personal data. Such obligations are concerned with how the collection, use, processing, sharing, and storing of consent and personal data takes place and provides the motivation for a form of documentation that can demonstrate the required information towards compliance. GDPRov is an OWL2 ontology for representing this information as provenance metadata using terms relevant to the GDPR. It extends PROV-O and P-Plan to represent the lifecyles as an abstract model of how things should happen or will happen (future) as well as instance of what has happened (past). The ontology is being developed as part of contributions towards PhD research by its primary author.
GDPRov is an ontology for expressing provenance metadata in the context of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and its compliance. It extends PROV-O and P-Plan. PROV-O is the ontology based on the PROV model, a W3C recommendation, while P-Plan is an extension of PROV-O. PROV is used to define terms or 'instances' of what has happened in the past, while P-Plan is used to define the abstract model or 'Plan' of things to happen. GDPRov uses P-Plan to create a template/model/plan as an abstract or model representation of a system which is then recorded using PROV-O instances to show something has happened. The aim of the ontology is to enable representation of consent and personal data lifecycles using terms relevant to GDPR and to facilitate expression of this information towards documentation related to compliance.
Anonymised represents the Anonymisation level where the data cannot be de-anonymised to retrieve personally identifiable information.
Represents data that has been Anonymised at some level reflected by the hasAnonymityLevel object property
Is an entity where personal data has been anonymised to some extent.
Provides a way to express the Anonymity Level of AnonymisedData objects through the object property hasAnonymityLevel
Reflects the process(es) used to appoint processors
An activity that archives given/acquired consent for storage.
ConsentAcquisitionStep deals with acquiring consent from the user. It uses Terms and Conditions along with the appropriate Consent Model as the basis of obtaining consent from the user. The output of this step is the consent object agreed upon by the user.
Consent Acquisition Step
ConsentAgreement reflects the consent provided by the user based on the provided Terms and Conditions and Consent Agreement Templates. It is the set of permissions the user has specifically provided or refused to provide. This consent is useful to provide justification of activities that use user data.
ConsentAgreement
This is a template for consent requested from the user.
ConsentAgreementTemplate
ConsentArchivalStep archives acquired consent to form a record of the consent given by the user.
Consent Archival Step
ConsentModificationStep deals with modifications to the consent by the user. It invalidates the previous consent object and produces a new updated consent object that represents the modified consent.
Consent Modification Step
A ConsentStep acts/interacts with/uses Consent
Consent Step
A ConsentWithdrawalProcess deals with the withdrawal of consent by the user and the corresponding activity carried out within the system
Consent Withdrawal Process
ConsentWithdrawalStep deals with withdrawal of consent
Consent Withdrawal Step
A ThirdPartyDataController is a Third Party entity that acts as a Data Controller
Controller
Is an activity that transfer data across borders (as defined in the GDPR).
The Data Protection Officer appointed to an organisation.
Represents class of data collected or generated through various activities
Data
A DataAccessProcess corresponds to the request made by an user for access to their data within the system. This process is responsible for handling the request process and providing the appropriate data to the end user.
Data Access Process
DataAnonymisationStep anonymises data by transforming it from one form to another along the anonymisation chain. Anonymisation can be represented as a spectrum going from raw user data to pseudo-anonymised data that can be de-anonymised by the same agent/organisation to pseudo-anonymous data that cannot be deanonymised internally, but may be done by external agents who have access to other data, and finally to completely anonymised data.
Data Anonymisation Step
Is an activity that archives data. Archival is transformation of data into some form for storage.
A DataArchivalProcess describes the process of data archival
Data Archival Process
DataArchivalStep archives data by transforming it and storing it
Data Archival Step
Is an activity dealing with data breach.
Step representing an action associated with data breach.
Is an activity that collects or acquires data.
DataCollectionStep collects data from the user
Data Collection Step
DataDeanonymisationStep deanonymises data by transforming it from one form to another along the anonymisation chain.
Data Deanonymisation Step
Is an activity that deletes or erases data.
DataDeletionStep deletes data from within the system; The deletion is expressed as prov:invalidated over the dataset.
Data Deletion Step
A DataErasureProcess is responsible for handling the data erasure of a data subject.
Data Erasure Process
A DataRectificationProcess describes the process of data rectification, which is the correction of data already present within the system
Data Rectification Process
DataSharingStep shares data with another agent/organisation. These may be internal or external entities.
Data Sharing Step
A DataStep deals with data
Data Step
DataStorageStep stores data within the system
Data Storage Step
DataTransformationStep transforms data from one form into another.
Data Transformation Step
Is an activity that uses data. Can also be termed as 'Processing' of data.
A DataUsageStep is a DataStep that uses existing data present within the system
Data Usage Step
DeAnonymised represents the Anonymisation level where the data is completely de-anonymised and contains directly accessible personally identifiable information.
Direct Marketing where the marketing is done directly to the data subject.
Represents the given consent by the data subject.
Is the template used to obtain the given consent.
A process that defines the actions that should be undertaken in event of a data breach
The process or series of steps that handle the right of data portability.
The process or series of steps that handle the right of erasure.
The process or series of steps that handle the right to access personal data.
The process or series of steps that handle the right to basic information about processing.
Handle Right to basic information about Processing
The process or series of steps that handle the right to not be processed automatically.
Handle Right to not be evaluated through Automated Processing
The process or series of steps that handle the right to object to direct marketing.
Handle Right to Object to Direct Marketing
The process or series of steps that handle the right to object to processing.
The process or series of steps that handle the right to rectification of personal data.
The process or series of steps that handle the right to restrict processing.
The process or series of steps that handle the right to transparency.
Represents the process or collection of steps representing the Impact Assessment.
A Joint Controller is where two or more controllers jointly determine the purposes and means of processing.
Marketing as a process or collection of steps.
Is an activity that modifies given consent.
The process of monitoring compliance as mandated by the GDPR.
Step that notifies the controller of data breach.
Is an activity that notifies controller about data breach
Step that notifies the Data Protection Authorities of a data breach.
Is an activity that notifies data protection authorities about data breach
Step that notifies the data subject of data breach.
Is an activity that notifies data subjects about data breach
PersonalData is any data pertaining to the user which can contain personally identifiable information or a data set generated by the system using personally identifiable information acquired through direct or indirect means
PersonalData
A Process describes a 'Plan' of action for carrying out a particular activity that uses or is related to Data or Consent
Process
A ThirdPartyDataProcessor is a Third Party entity that acts as a Data Processor
Processor
A step that provides the data subject with a copy of their personal data.
PseudoAnonymised represents the Anonymisation level where the data is anonymised but cannot be de-anonymised without additional data which is NOT accessible to the data-holding organisation to retrieve personally identifiable information.
PseudoOrganisationalAnonymised represents the Anonymisation level where the data is anonymised but cannot be de-anonymised without additional data which is accessible to the data-holding organisation to recreate the de-anonymised information.
The process of reporting after a data breach has taken place.
Personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, and the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person's sex life or sexual orientation.
Is an entity containing sensitive personal information.
A Processor appointed under or by another Processor is a Sub-Processor.
Terms and Conditions of usage as provided to the user in agreement of provided service
TermsAndConditions
Represents the Terms and Conditions entity.
A ThirdParty is any external entitiy associated with some internal activity
ThirdParty
An UserIdentifier is a specific way to identify the user through a unique ID or a combination of other attributes
UserIdentifier
Is an entity acting as the user identifier. Or contains an identifier.
Is an activity that withdraws given consent. Can also term it so as to depict withdrawal as a modification of consent.
Links data obtained (collected) by the step/activity that acquired it
Indicates that an DataAnonymisationStep transforms a Data object into AnonymisedData
Generates ConsentAgreement which is a the consent granted by the user based on the ConsentAgreementTemplate through a ConsentAcquisitionStep
Indicates the anonymity level of an AnonymisedData object using instances of the AnonymityLevel class
justifies use of data by step through specified consent agreement
Indicates sharing of Data through a DataStep
links a Consent Acquisition Step with the Consent Agreement Template used to acquire consent
Links a Consent Acquisition Step with the Terms and Conditions presented to the user when acquiring Consent