CBCMS: A Compliance Management System for Cross-Border Data Transfer

TL;DR

This paper introduces CBCMS, a system that manages cross-border data transfer compliance across multiple legal frameworks in real-time, with high concurrency and accuracy, addressing limitations of existing solutions.

Contribution

The paper presents CBCMS, the first unified compliance management system supporting multiple jurisdictions with real-time processing and a novel policy definition language.

Findings

Achieves up to 97.32% F1 score in policy generation

Inference time is within 6 to 13 milliseconds under load

Supports high-concurrency, real-time compliance management

Abstract

Cross-border data transfer is vital for the digital economy by enabling data flow across different countries or regions. However, ensuring compliance with diverse data protection regulations during the transfer introduces significant complexities. Existing solutions either focus on a single legal framework or neglect real-time and concurrent processing demands, resulting in incomplete and inconsistent compliance management. To address this issue, we propose Cross-Border Compliance Management System (CBCMS), which not only enables the unified management of data processing policies across multiple jurisdictions to ensure compliance with various legal frameworks involved in cross-border data transfer, but also supports real-time and high-concurrency processing capabilities. We design Policy Definition Language (PDL) that supports the unified management of data processing policies, bridging the gap between natural language policies and machine-processable expressions, thereby allowing various legal frameworks to be seamlessly integrated into CBCMS. We present Compliance Policy Generation Model (CPGM), the core component of CBCMS, which generates compliant data processing policies with high accuracy, achieving up to 25.16% improvement in F1 score (reaching 97.32%) compared to rule-based baseline. CPGM achieves inference time in the order of milliseconds (6 to 13 ms), and keeps low latency even under high-load scenarios, demonstrating high real-time and concurrent performance. To our knowledge, CBCMS is the first system to support unified compliance management across jurisdictions while ensuring real-time and concurrent processing capabilities.