PrivComp-KG : Leveraging Knowledge Graph and Large Language Models for Privacy Policy Compliance Verification

TL;DR

This paper introduces PrivComp-KG, a knowledge graph combined with large language models to verify privacy policy compliance efficiently, addressing challenges in interpreting complex regulations and ambiguous policies.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel knowledge graph framework, PrivComp-KG, integrated with LLMs and semantic web techniques for automated privacy compliance verification.

Findings

Successfully verified privacy policy compliance across multiple organizations.

Demonstrated effective retrieval of regulatory information using PrivComp-KG.

Enhanced accuracy in identifying policy-regulation mismatches.

Abstract

Data protection and privacy is becoming increasingly crucial in the digital era. Numerous companies depend on third-party vendors and service providers to carry out critical functions within their operations, encompassing tasks such as data handling and storage. However, this reliance introduces potential vulnerabilities, as these vendors' security measures and practices may not always align with the standards expected by regulatory bodies. Businesses are required, often under the penalty of law, to ensure compliance with the evolving regulatory rules. Interpreting and implementing these regulations pose challenges due to their complexity. Regulatory documents are extensive, demanding significant effort for interpretation, while vendor-drafted privacy policies often lack the detail required for full legal compliance, leading to ambiguity. To ensure a concise interpretation of the regulatory requirements and compliance of organizational privacy policy with said regulations, we propose a Large Language Model (LLM) and Semantic Web based approach for privacy compliance. In this paper, we develop the novel Privacy Policy Compliance Verification Knowledge Graph, PrivComp-KG. It is designed to efficiently store and retrieve comprehensive information concerning privacy policies, regulatory frameworks, and domain-specific knowledge pertaining to the legal landscape of privacy. Using Retrieval Augmented Generation, we identify the relevant sections in a privacy policy with corresponding regulatory rules. This information about individual privacy policies is populated into the PrivComp-KG. Combining this with the domain context and rules, the PrivComp-KG can be queried to check for compliance with privacy policies by each vendor against relevant policy regulations. We demonstrate the relevance of the PrivComp-KG, by verifying compliance of privacy policy documents for various organizations.