Title
Automated GDPR Contract Compliance Verification Using Knowledge Graphs
Abstract
In the past few years, the main research efforts regarding General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)-compliant data sharing have been focused primarily on informed consent (one of the six GDPR lawful bases for data processing). In cases such as Business-to-Business (B2B) and Business-to-Consumer (B2C) data sharing, when consent might not be enough, many small and medium enterprises (SMEs) still depend on contracts-a GDPR basis that is often overlooked due to its complexity. The contract's lifecycle comprises many stages (e.g., drafting, negotiation, and signing) that must be executed in compliance with GDPR. Despite the active research efforts on digital contracts, contract-based GDPR compliance and challenges such as contract interoperability have not been sufficiently elaborated on yet. Since knowledge graphs and ontologies provide interoperability and support knowledge discovery, we propose and develop a knowledge graph-based tool for GDPR contract compliance verification (CCV). It binds GDPR's legal basis to data sharing contracts. In addition, we conducted a performance evaluation in terms of execution time and test cases to validate CCV's correctness in determining the overhead and applicability of the proposed tool in smart city and insurance application scenarios. The evaluation results and the correctness of the CCV tool demonstrate the tool's practicability for deployment in the real world with minimum overhead.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.3390/info13100447
INFORMATION
Keywords
DocType
Volume
digital contracts, data sharing, ontology, knowledge graph, GDPR compliance, smart cities, insurance
Journal
13
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
10
2078-2489
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Amar Tauqeer100.34
Anelia Kurteva200.34
Tek Raj Chhetri300.34
Albin Ahmeti400.34
Anna Fensel501.35