project:legal:openprivacypolicy

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This is a LegalHack@OKCon 2013 challenge from Florian Ducommun, Creative Commons Switzerland.

Open Privacy Policy

When reading online privacy policies, it is difficult to know the legal jurisdiction the website asserting those terms is answerable to, and therefore which laws apply. An open resource of international privacy and data protection laws could be linked to by third-parties like ToSDR.org and PrivacyScore, to help consumers understand where they stand.

Knowing which countries and companies have been approved for international data transfers between each other would also be helpful and fun to visualise!

  1. Create data schema for international privacy law
  2. Input data (e.g. existing policies)
  3. Visualise data transfer agreements

There is already a proprietary, free (as in gratis) resource which already covers international data protection laws at practicallaw.com. However this is not open, and its not data, so not helpful for law mining.

Previous work visualising data protection issues: informationisbeautiful.net

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