Usage Policy & Rights
DPV
Data Privacy Vocabulary
A vocabulary for expressing personal data handling in machine-readable form: personal data categories, purposes, legal bases, processing operations, recipients, and the technical and organisational measures applied.
Ships with jurisdiction extensions (EU GDPR, EU AI Act, and others), which makes it the practical bridge between a records-of-processing obligation and metadata your catalogue can actually hold.
At a glance
- Category
- Usage Policy & Rights
- Jurisdiction
- EU
- Governance
- W3C Data Privacy Vocabularies and Controls CG
- Status
- DPV 2.3 (2026); DPVCG report with GDPR, DGA, EHDS and AI Act extensions
- First released
- 2022
Links
Related frameworks
Other entries under Usage Policy & Rights.
See DPV in context
Open the interactive Data Landscape for Regulation to compare DPV against every other framework, or grab the raw JSON. Certification schemes and editions move — follow the source links before relying on this page.