Phase 1 Detailed Plan: Standards-to-Indicators Mapping
Timeline target: Month 1
Goal
Convert standards and regulatory clauses into measurable privacy indicators that can be used for downstream scoring.
Scope
In scope:
- ISO 27001, NIST, GDPR, and related regulatory clauses.
- Indicators tied to consent, data minimization, encryption, third-party sharing, and transparency/accountability dimensions.
Out of scope:
- Full legal interpretation beyond technical measurable mapping.
- Final risk score modeling (Phase 3).
Proposal.pdf- Source standards/regulatory documents.
- Prior related references (Polisis, PrivacyBERT literature context).
Steps to Complete
- Build a standards corpus
- Collect and normalize all relevant clauses into a single structured table.
- Include metadata fields: source, section, clause text, jurisdiction, control category.
- Define an indicator taxonomy
- Create top-level dimensions: notice/transparency, consent/control, data minimization, retention, security, sharing, redress.
- Define naming rules for indicators (for example
CONSENT_EXPLICIT_OPT_IN).
- Translate clauses into measurable indicators
- For each clause, define:
- indicator definition,
- data needed to measure it,
- acceptable value range,
- scoring direction (higher is better/worse).
- Build traceability matrix
- Map
clause -> indicator -> metric candidate.
- Ensure many-to-many relationships are documented explicitly.
- Run internal quality review
- Check for overlap, ambiguity, and unmeasurable indicators.
- Remove indicators that lack feasible data signals.
- Freeze Phase 1 baseline
- Version the indicator catalog and traceability matrix.
- Publish assumptions and unresolved questions.
Deliverables
- Standards mapping table (CSV/Parquet).
- Indicator catalog (Markdown).
- Traceability matrix (Markdown/CSV).
- Phase 1 review memo.
Recommended Acceptance Checks
- 100 percent of in-scope clauses map to at least one indicator or have documented rationale for exclusion.
- Indicator definitions are testable with identifiable data inputs.
- Duplicate indicators reduced via normalization pass.
- At least one reviewer sign-off on traceability consistency.
Risks and Mitigations
- Risk: Too many low-value indicators.
- Mitigation: Prioritize indicators that are observable in policy text/logs.
- Risk: Ambiguous legal language.
- Mitigation: Add confidence levels and interpretation notes per mapping.
- Risk: Scope creep from ecosystem-level topics.
- Mitigation: Keep ecosystem items tagged as future scope only.
Recommended Week-by-Week Breakdown
Week 1:
- Collect and normalize clause corpus.
Week 2:
- Draft taxonomy and first-pass indicator mapping.
Week 3:
- Build traceability matrix and resolve ambiguities.
Week 4:
- Review, baseline freeze, and handoff package for Phase 2.
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