Legal Concepts for India

version 2.0

Final Community Group Report

This version:
https://www.w3.org/community/reports/dpvcg/CG-FINAL-legal-20240801/
Latest published version:
https://w3id.org/dpv/legal/in
Latest editor's draft:
https://dev.dpvcg.org/legal/in
Editor:
Harshvardhan J. Pandit (ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University)
Authors:
Georg P. Krog (Signatu AS)
Harshvardhan J. Pandit (ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University)
Feedback:
GitHub w3c/dpv (pull requests, new issue, open issues)
This Release
https://w3id.org/dpv/legal/in
Previous Release
https://w3id.org/dpv/1.0/dpv-legal
Key Publications
Data Privacy Vocabulary (DPV) -- Version 2 (2024)

Abstract

The LEGAL-IN extension extends the Data Privacy Vocabulary (DPV) Specification to represent laws, authorities, and other legal concepts in IN jurisdiction.

The canonical URL for LEGAL-IN extension is https://w3id.org/dpv/legal/in, the namespace is https://w3id.org/dpv/legal/in#, the suggested prefix is legal-in, and this document along with source and releases are available at https://github.com/w3c/dpv.

Status of This Document

This specification was published by the Data Privacy Vocabularies and Controls Community Group. It is not a W3C Standard nor is it on the W3C Standards Track. Please note that under the W3C Community Final Specification Agreement (FSA) other conditions apply. Learn more about W3C Community and Business Groups.

Contributing: The DPVCG welcomes participation to improve the DPV and associated resources, including expansion or refinement of concepts, requesting information and applications, and addressing open issues. See contributing guide for further information.

GitHub Issues are preferred for discussion of this specification.

Data Privacy Vocabulary (DPV) Specification: is the base/core specification for the 'Data Privacy Vocabulary', which is extended for Personal Data [PD], Locations [LOC], Risk Management [RISK], Technology [TECH], and [AI]. Specific [LEGAL] extensions are also provided which model jurisdiction specific regulations and concepts . To support understanding and applications of [DPV], various guides and resources [GUIDES] are provided, including a [PRIMER]. A Search Index of all concepts from DPV and extensions is available.

[DPV] and related resources are published on GitHub. For a general overview of the Data Protection Vocabularies and Controls Community Group [DPVCG], its history, deliverables, and activities - refer to DPVCG Website. For meetings, see the DPVCG calendar.

The peer-reviewed article “Creating A Vocabulary for Data Privacy” presents a historical overview of the DPVCG, and describes the methodology and structure of the DPV along with describing its creation. An open-access version can be accessed here, here, and here. The article Data Privacy Vocabulary (DPV) - Version 2, accepted for presentation at the 23rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2024), describes the changes made in DPV v2.

3. Laws

Laws are represented as instances of dpv:Law, and are associated with their jurisdictions using the [LOC] taxonomy and dpv:hasJurisdiction relation. The webpage for the law, if available, is indicated using foaf:homepage, and the temporal start and end if available, is represented using dct:temporal relation with an instance of time:ProperInterval.

ID Name Jurisdictions Authorities Webpage Start/End
law-DPDP Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 (DPDP) India legal-in:DPA-IN link 2023-08-11/ongoing

4. Authorities

Authorities are represented as instances of dpv:Authority, and are associated with specific jurisdictions using dpv:hasJurisdiction. The law which the authorities enforce is indicated by dpv:hasApplicableLaw. The webpage for the authority, if available, is indicated using foaf:homepage.

ID Name Jurisdictions Laws Webpage
DPA-IN Data Protection Board of India India legal-in:law-DPDP

5. Vocabulary Index

5.1 Classes

5.1.1 Data Protection Board of India

Term DPA-IN Prefix legal-in
Label Data Protection Board of India
IRI https://w3id.org/dpv/legal/in#DPA-IN
Type rdfs:Class, skos:Concept, dpv:DataProtectionAuthority
Broader/Parent types dpv:DataProtectionAuthoritydpv:Authoritydpv:GovernmentalOrganisationdpv:Organisationdpv:LegalEntitydpv:Entity
Broader/Parent types dpv:Law
Object of relation dpv:hasApplicableLaw, dpv:hasAuthority, dpv:hasEntity, dpv:hasResponsibleEntity, dpv:hasSubsidiary, dpv:isDeterminedByEntity, dpv:isImplementedByEntity, dpv:isIndicatedBy, dpv:isOrganistionalUnitOf, dpv:isRepresentativeFor, dpv:isSubsidiaryOf
Date Created 2024-02-14
has applicable law Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 (DPDP)
has jurisdiction India
See More: section LEGAL in LEGAL-IN

5.1.2 Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 (DPDP)

Term law-DPDP Prefix legal-in
Label Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 (DPDP)
IRI https://w3id.org/dpv/legal/in#law-DPDP
Type rdfs:Class, skos:Concept, dpv:Law
Broader/Parent types dpv:Law
Object of relation dpv:hasApplicableLaw
Date Created 2024-02-14
has authority Data Protection Board of India
has jurisdiction India
See More: section LEGAL in LEGAL-IN

5.2 Properties

5.3 External

DPV uses the following terms from [RDF] and [RDFS] with their defined meanings:

The following external concepts are re-used within DPV:

6. Contributors

The following people have contributed to this vocabulary. The names are ordered alphabetically. The affiliations are informative do not represent formal endorsements. Affiliations may be outdated. The list is generated automatically from the contributors listed for defined concepts.

Funding Acknowledgements

Funding Sponsors

The DPVCG was established as part of the SPECIAL H2020 Project, which received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 731601 from 2017 to 2019.

Harshvardhan J. Pandit was funded to work on DPV from 2020 to 2022 by the Irish Research Council's Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant#GOIPD/2020/790.

The ADAPT SFI Centre for Digital Media Technology is funded by Science Foundation Ireland through the SFI Research Centres Programme and is co-funded under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through Grant#13/RC/2106 (2018 to 2020) and Grant#13/RC/2106_P2 (2021 onwards).

Funding Acknowledgements for Contributors

The contributions of Harshvardhan J. Pandit have been made with the financial support of Science Foundation Ireland under Grant Agreement No. 13/RC/2106_P2 at the ADAPT SFI Research Centre.

A. References

A.1 Informative references

[AI]
AI Technology concepts for DPV. URL: https://w3id.org/dpv/ai
[DPV]
Data Privacy Vocabulary (DPV) Specification. URL: https://w3id.org/dpv
[DPVCG]
W3C Data Privacy Vocabularies and Controls Community Group (DPVCG). URL: https://www.w3.org/community/dpvcg/
[GUIDES]
Guides for DPV. URL: https://w3id.org/dpv/guides
Legal Jurisdiction-relevant concepts for DPV. URL: https://w3id.org/dpv/legal
[LOC]
Location and Geo-Political Membership concepts for DPV. URL: https://w3id.org/dpv/loc
[PD]
Personal Data categories for DPV. URL: https://w3id.org/dpv/pd
[PRIMER]
Primer for Data Privacy Vocabulary. URL: https://w3id.org/dpv/primer
[RDF]
RDF 1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax. URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/
[RDFS]
RDF Schema 1.1. URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema/
[RISK]
Risk Assessment and Management concepts for DPV. URL: https://w3id.org/dpv/risk
[TECH]
Technology concepts for DPV. URL: https://w3id.org/dpv/tech