Welcome!

Our legal search engine provides an easier, quicker and more systematic access to relevant regulatory ICT conventions and regulations in several languages. It facilitates the work of the developers and IT organizations interested in compliance activities and certification by simplifying their searches and providing them with more systematic results. It also enables the access to relevant regulatory dispositions and guidance from relevant data protection authorities.

In order to initiate a search, you just have to select one or several criteria and click on the button corresponding to the results you wish to obtain.

The search is multidimensional: you can combine any of the following criteria:

• a country, and optionally a second country
• a domain, a topic, or a keyword
• a search text
• a date
• a specific convention or regulation

Through this search, you can access any of the following results:

• the full text of conventions and regulations;
• relevant articles binding any selected country on any selected topic;
• a list of relevant regulations by State party, domain or topic;
• a list of conventions and regulations signed and/or ratified by any selected country;
• the status of signatures and ratifications as well as reservations for any selected convention or regulation;

The search results take into consideration the various relevant parameters, including dates of ratification, signature and entry into force of the conventions and regulations, as well as potential reservations made by a State party. By selecting a country and a topic, you can access in one click the relevant articles of international conventions and regulations binding the selected country on the selected topic.

We also offer a short introduction to privacy and data protection law.

What is the added value?

• To facilitate legal searches in data protection and privacy law;
• To facilitate the work of professionals with quicker and more systematic results;
• To promote the dissemination of international norms;
• To support the implementation and effectiveness of privacy, data protection and cybersecurity conventions and regulations.

What Languages?

The Search Engine is available in English and French.

Who manages the search engine?

The legal search engine maintenance is coordinated by the foundation Mandat International in cooperation with other organisations. Mandat International and its partners are collectively referred to as the “Service Provider”.

Useful Link

Additional resources on privacy and data protection are available through the Europrivacy dedicated online community website. It encompasses International, European, and National data protection regulations related resources to support compliance that are regularly updated. Access to the list of documents is available on the Europrivacy resources and community website.

Legal disclaimer

We accept no responsibility or liability with regard to the accuracy, copyright compliance or legality of material contained in this site. The use of our legal search engine is only authorized on the condition that the user has understood and fully agreed with the following disclaimer:

IoT Lab and TRUST aWARE aim to ensure that the information provided by PrivacyLawSearch.com is accurate and up-to-date. If errors are brought to our attention, we will try to correct them. However, IoT Lab and TRUST aWARE accept no responsibility or liability with regard to the accuracy, copyright compliance or legality of material contained in this site. IoT Lab and TRUST aWARE provide links to external sites but have no control over such sites and accept no responsibility for their content. Therefore, IoT Lab, TRUST aWARE and their teams decline any responsibility for the correctness and completeness of the results obtained through the legal search engine. By using our website and/or its results, the user accepts to renounce to any claim and agrees to the exclusive application of Swiss law for any legal interaction with us.