The Structure of Data Privacy Compliance

Achieving Data Privacy Compliance involves a dynamic process requiring the expertise of many roles, particularly legal and technical experts, and it ultimately revolves around the goal of data protection, particularly in technical systems. While this goal may be clear, the inner workings and overall structure of the compliance process remain under-researched. In particular, the roles involved in the process of data privacy compliance and the nature of the interactions between them have not yet been investigated or formalized in a structured manner. In this work, we present such a structure, based on a series of interviews conducted with privacy professionals with varying responsibilities in compliance programs.