Visualizing Cross-Border Data Transfers

Using Data Mapping Automation, you can view a map that shows cross-border transfers of data based on information from your related inventories. You can create

A cross-border data transfer may include multiple inventories that serve distinct purposes in separate locations. In addition to location attributes, the Cross-Border Map is populated based on how transfers are related to inventories that facilitate them. The transfer lines, which represent the cross-border flow of data, are plotted based on the specific relationships you've defined between your inventory records. For example, a transfer line will show data flowing away from an asset defined as Storage/Processing and toward another asset defined as Destination/Access.

Note:

Inventories with a location attribute defined as Global or Unknown will not populate a transfer line.

For more information on relationships between assets and processing activities and how to configure them, see Creating and Managing Contextual Relationships and About Inventory Linking and Relationships.

To view cross-border transfer details

  1. On the Data Mapping Automation menu, select Cross-Border. The Cross-Border map appears.

  2. Using the selection menu in the header, select the type of transfer you want your map to show. The relevant transfers display.


    Tip:

    Use the Layers menu to enable and disable map layers identifying the United States, European Economic Area (EEA), and countries which the European Commission recognizes as having Adequate Protection for the purposes of GDPR through an adequacy decision.



  3. Click a transfer line on the map. The transfers details display in the slide-out pane.


  4. Click the View relationship details link. The Relationship details screen appears.


To view and confirm potential relationships

Potential transfers populate on the map any time a processing activity (known as a context processing activity) has related source assets with a different hosting location than its related collection assets, or has related collection assets with a different hosting location than its related destination assets.

  1. On the Data Mapping Automation menu, select Cross-Border. The Cross-Border map appears.

  2. Enable the Potential Relationships setting in the header. The potential relationships display on the map as dotted lines.


  3. Click a dotted line. The Potential Relationship pane appears.

  4. Use the checkboxes to select the potential relationships you want to confirm.

    Potential relationships display the following:

    • Source object

    • Target object

    • Suggested directional data flow label

    • Context processing activity



  5. Click the Confirm Relationships button. The relationships will populate in the Related tab of the corresponding inventories.

Example Scenario

Process A has a Source asset of MongoDB hosted in Australia and a Storage/Processing asset of Snowflake hosted in the United States.

disabled

If Potential Relationships is, no connection displays from Australia (MongoDB) to the United Stated (Snowflake).

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If Potential Relationships is, a dotted line from Australia to the United States displays. You can then confirm or reject the new relationship and its details.

  • If confirmed, the new relationship populates and a solid transfer line displays on the Cross-Border map. Process A is considered the contextual process of the transfer.

  • If rejected, the line disappears from the Potential Transfers interface and the Cross-Border map altogether.

To filter the cross-border map

  1. On the Cross-Border map, click the Filter button. The Filter pane appears.

  2. Create a filter by selecting an attribute and specifying value(s).


  3. Click Save. Repeat the process to add multiple filters.
  4. Click Apply. The Cross-Border map will show only transfers that meet your criteria.

To export cross-border transfer information

  1. On the Cross-Border map, click the Export button. An Export modal appears.
  2. Click Export. A spreadsheet file will appear in the Task Notification Center.
  3. Click the file name to download the export to your device. The export file will include information on each cross-border transfer, including details on the relationships among processing activities and assets involved in each transfer.
    Note:

    If filters are applied to your map, only transfers that meet your filter criteria will be present in your export.