Arkova is a compliance audit automation platform in early access, built on top of a production-grade, cryptographically-anchored evidence layer. The audit-automation product — scorecard, gap detection, remediation, regulatory-change alerts, PDF export — is being built and refined with pilot customers.

How much faster is an audit with Arkova going to be vs. the manual process?

Typical compliance audits take weeks: compiling evidence across many tools, mapping it to controls, and producing a report. Arkova is designed to map evidence to the rules in your operating regimes automatically, rank gaps by severity and penalty risk, and produce an audit-ready export. Our pilot target is collapsing weeks of audit prep into hours.

Which regulations are on the roadmap?

US federal (FERPA, HIPAA, SOX, FCRA, GLBA, ADA, FLSA, GINA), EU/UK GDPR, Kenya DPA, Australia APP, Canada PIPEDA, Singapore PDPA, Japan APPI, India DPDP, South Africa POPIA, Nigeria NDPR, Colombia Law 1581, Thailand PDPA, and Malaysia PDPA. Prioritized by pilot-customer footprint.

What will the scorecard show?

A per-jurisdiction posture score and breakdown, a severity-ranked gap list, a prioritized remediation plan, a regulatory-change feed, and an audit-ready export. Designed for GRC leads, CISOs, internal audit, and outside counsel.

Is the evidence chain auditor-grade?

The evidence layer is cryptographic and independently verifiable: every anchor is a SHA-256 fingerprint committed to a public network, and lifecycle events are in an append-only audit log. Our own SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 work is in progress.

Is my data safe? Do you see our documents?

No. Documents never leave your device. Fingerprinting is client-side. Only PII-stripped metadata flows to our systems. Even if we were breached, your documents remain private because we never had them.

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Compliance · GDPR

European UnionPrivate Beta · Building

GDPR evidence on a substrate where you can prove what you did, when.

GDPR enforcement turns on records: the lawful basis you relied on, the consent you collected, the data subject request you fulfilled, the breach you assessed within 72 hours. Arkova anchors each of those records to a public ledger with a verifiable timestamp — so the supervisory authority does not have to take your vendor's word for any of it.

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What it is

GDPR in plain English.

The General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation 2016/679) is the EU's comprehensive data-protection framework, applicable since 25 May 2018. It governs the processing of personal data of EU/EEA residents regardless of where the processor is located, with extraterritorial reach mirrored by virtually every later privacy law worldwide.

GDPR organizes obligations around six lawful bases for processing (consent, contract, legal obligation, vital interests, public task, legitimate interests), eight data-subject rights (access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, objection, automated-decision rights, information), and a supervisory-authority enforcement regime headed by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB).

Penalties reach up to €20M or 4% of global annual turnover, whichever is higher, for the most serious infringements. Most actual fines are smaller but six- and seven-figure fines are routine and indexed under EDPB's harmonized penalty guidelines.

Key requirements

What GDPR actually asks of you.

Records of processing activities (Article 30)

Controllers and processors must maintain a record of all processing activities including purposes, categories of data, recipients, retention, and security measures. Available to the supervisory authority on request.

Lawful basis evidence

For each processing activity, documented evidence of the lawful basis (Art. 6) and, for consent (Art. 7), proof of when consent was given, what was consented to, and that withdrawal is as easy as giving consent.

Data Subject Access Requests (Articles 15-22)

Response within one calendar month (extensible to three for complex requests). Documented timeline of receipt, identity verification, fulfillment, and content provided.

72-hour breach notification (Article 33-34)

Personal data breaches must be notified to the supervisory authority within 72 hours of awareness. High-risk breaches also notified to data subjects without undue delay. Documented timeline is the entire game.

Data Protection Impact Assessment (Article 35)

Required for high-risk processing. Versioned documentation showing the assessment, mitigations, and (where required) prior consultation with the supervisory authority.

International transfer safeguards (Articles 44-49)

Standard Contractual Clauses, Binding Corporate Rules, adequacy decisions, or derogations. Signed agreements + transfer-impact assessments must be retrievable.

How Arkova fits

Where Arkova adds an independent layer.

Most GDPR investigations turn on whether the documentation you produce was actually in effect at the time of the processing being investigated. Arkova anchors each version of your privacy notice, consent record, DSAR fulfillment, breach assessment, and DPIA to a public ledger with a cryptographic timestamp. When the supervisory authority asks "what was your privacy notice on March 15th, 2024?" you produce the document + the public-ledger receipt. They verify both independently. No need to trust your CMS, your DPM tool, or any vendor.

The 72-hour breach notification window in particular is where anchored timestamps are decisive. Arkova-anchored awareness, assessment, and notification timestamps make the timing claim objectively verifiable rather than reliant on vendor logs that the supervisory authority knows are mutable.

Layer cryptographic evidence on top of your GDPR program.

If you process EU personal data and want GDPR evidence with verifiable timestamps your supervisory authority can validate independently, we'd like to discuss an early-access pilot.

Arkova is in private beta. Features described on this page are being built and refined with pilot customers right now. Some controls and integrations are live today; others are in active development. Talk to us about the parts most relevant to your workload.

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