System and method of facilitating compliance with information sharing regulations

摘要

The present invention provides a system and method of facilitating compliance to one or more information sharing regulations. The present invention provides a computer system equipped with a processing unit capable of receiving input information and extracting one or more data sharing guidelines. The present invention utilizes the relationship between the parties and the data at issue to construct a data sharing arrangement. Each data sharing arrangement may be cross-referenced to one or more data sharing guidelines designed to assist the user to determine what privacy regulations apply and how to comply with same.

主权项

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon that are executed by a number of processing resources to:
identify at least one primary party for sharing personal data of a data type and at least one secondary party for receiving the shared personal data over a network, wherein the data type comprises non-public personally identifiable data; define a sharing relationship between the at least one primary party and the at least one secondary party; define a data sharing arrangement based upon the sharing relationship and the data type, wherein the data sharing arrangement includes terms and conditions; identify applicable information-sharing regulations based on the data sharing arrangement; retrieve privacy guidelines for compliance with the applicable information-sharing regulations, wherein the privacy guidelines are based on the data type comprising non-public personally identifiable data; and display, to a user, at least a portion of the privacy guidelines prior to enabling the user to share the personal data with the secondary party via the network.