Transparency
What is Transparency?
The principle that individuals should be clearly informed about how their personal data is being collected, used, and processed. Transparency is a foundational principle of GDPR and requires clear, plain language in privacy communications.
Terms that appear alongside transparency
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as transparency. The number is how many controls name both.
- consent 77 shared controls
- gdpr 65 shared controls
- compliance 59 shared controls
- data subject 52 shared controls
- governance 48 shared controls
- accountability 47 shared controls
- audit 43 shared controls
- data protection 39 shared controls
Frameworks that govern transparency
What the standards actually require on transparency
Requirements naming transparency across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Transparency (Toumeisei 透明性) is the sixth of 10 Principles per Japan AI Guidelines for Business + reinforced by Hiroshima AI Process Code of Conduct (October 2023) which establishes voluntary transparency commitments for frontier AI developers.
JP-AIG-Transparency-Documentation-Model-Card-System-Card-Tier-Based-Disclosure-Hiroshima-Code-of-Conduct · Japan AI Guidelines Transparency + Documentation + Model Card + System Card + Datasheet + Tier-Based Disclosure + Hiroshima Code of Conduct + AI Generated Content + Watermarking + C2PA + User Notification →Providers of intermediary services (except micro/small enterprises that are not VLOPs) shall publish, at least annually, clear and comprehensible reports on any content moderation they engaged in during the period.
DSA-Art.15 · Transparency reporting obligations for providers of intermediary services →Log all signing events in immutable transparency log providing auditable record of signature creation
SIGSTORE-REK-1 · Signature Transparency Logging →Providers must inform users in a conspicuous manner that they provide algorithmic recommendation services and publicise the basic principles, purpose/intent and main operating mechanisms in an appropriate way.
CN-ALG-A16 · Algorithm Transparency Disclosure to Users →Employers shall make easily accessible to workers the criteria used to determine pay, pay levels and pay progression, and those criteria shall be objective and gender-neutral (employers with fewer than 50 workers may be exempt from the pay-progression criteria...
PTD-Art.6 · Transparency of pay setting and pay progression policy →Article 20 requires recognised data altruism organisations to record: (a) all data users using their data; (b) the dates / durations of use; (c) the purpose; (d) any fees paid by data users; (e) the data subjects / data holders' interests safeguarded.
DGA-Art.20_21 · Transparency and safeguarding requirements (Articles 20-21) →Questions people ask about transparency
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