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PrivacyCentral

Automate privacy compliance

Meet global regulatory obligations efficiently – minimizing manual effort, redundant work, and compliance costs. With over 20,000+ pre-defined controls mapped across 140+ privacy and security laws and standards, move from manual management to intelligent automation.

Cut compliance costs

With the growing number of global privacy regulations, staying compliant requires hours of manual work or expensive legal support. PrivacyCentral reduces those costs and accelerates your time to compliance by automating the evaluation, interpretation, and application of privacy laws. Skip the tedious work of tracking new rules, reviewing evidence manually, or duplicating compliance efforts. Leverage expert-defined controls and AI-powered tools to identify and close compliance gaps quickly.

Cut compliance costs

Given the number of existing and emerging privacy regulations today, you can end up spending hours on manual efforts to keep up (or spend huge amounts in legal fees).

PrivacyCentral significantly reduces those costs by automating the assessment, interpretation, and application of laws. Stay compliant without crawling through online resources on new or updated laws, spending hours assessing submitted evidence, or duplicating compliance efforts. Leverage expert-built operational templates and expertise-enabled AI tools to close your compliance gaps quickly.

Accelerate time to compliance

Maintained and continuously updated by TrustArc’s team of privacy experts, PrivacyCentral uses a controls-based framework and AI-powered functionality to make it easy to identify compliance gaps, assess and score evidence quality, track compliance progress, and prioritize tasks.

Eliminate the need to answer the same questions for every new regulation or standard – or update. With 1200+ common controls, your team spends less time on redundant work, and more time solving what’s unique.

20k+ compliance controls

PrivacyCentral's library includes over 125 global privacy and security laws and standards – continuously updated by a team of privacy and legal experts.

NIST AI Framework

NIST Cybersecurity Framework

NIST 800-53

ISO 27001

ISO 27002

ISO 27550

ISO 29100

PCI DSS 4.0

SOC2

China Cybersecurity Law

GDPR

Data Privacy Framework

HIPAA

COPPA

Singapore’s PDPA

New Zealand’s Privacy Act

GLBA

India’s DPDPA

Japan’s APPI

China’s PIPL

CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act)

CPA (Colorado Privacy Act)

VCDPA (Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act)

Nevada Privacy Law

MPSA (Massachusetts Data Privacy Law)

CTDPA (Connecticut Data Privacy Act)

Texas DPSA (Data Privacy and Security Act)

Oregon CDPA (Consumer PData Protection Act)

Canada PIPEDA (Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act)

Florida Digital Bill of Rights

Go from manual to automated compliance management

  • Reduce fatigue with common controls

    With a controls-based model, PrivacyCentral identifies shared requirements across multiple frameworks. Complete once, and apply everywhere—cutting down up to 30% of redundant actions.

  • Built-in AI for smarter compliance

    Leverage AI to do the manual work for you, including monitoring regulatory changes, autofilling responses across laws, auto-categorizing evidence, analyzing evidence, and making recommendations to close compliance gaps.

  • Organizational configurability

    Upload your organizational hierarchy maps to customize workflows, assign responsibility, and create focused accountability across teams and business units.

  • On-demand attestation & reporting

    Track KPIs with drag-and-drop dashboards, customize reports, and align privacy status with business priorities. Centralize evidence, compliance metrics, and task management in one view.

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Meet AI Evidence Analyzer – save time with intelligent automation

Instantly assess the quality and relevance of your evidence. Get actionable recommendations for improvement. Save hours of manual review time – so you can focus on what matters most.

TrustArc, through its PrivacyCentral platform, is helping us to identify gaps in our privacy and AI governance programs where we can better document policies, procedures, and notifications to align with requirements around the world.”

-Information Technology and Services Customer, G2

PrivacyCentral played a valuable role in helping DoubleVerify create a scalable privacy program that offers business continuity now, and for years to come.”

– Beatrice Botti, VP, Global Data & Privacy Officer

We have found it very helpful for streamlining privacy management without any time spent on understanding the new laws or how to interpret them. Its AI technology helps to analyze the company profile against all laws/policies and implement suitable policies. I also like the TrustArc support team which are technically strong and professionally resolved issues on time. Overall, It is easy to use and a very helpful platform for our organization.”

– Harish, Senior Software Analyst

PrivacyCentral is a great planning tool which helps us plan out the year and helps us understand and prioritize risk.”

– Mobile Engagement Software Customer

Using AI Evidence Analyzer, we can quickly identify areas that need attention without having to dive deep into each assessment manually.”

– Emerson Pang, Compliance Analyst, QAD

    Eliminate compliance redundancy

    If you’re still relying on manual efforts to track changes in privacy and security laws, it won’t be long before it becomes impossible to keep up, much less get ahead. PrivacyCentral reduces your costs and time-to-compliance with AI-powered automation.

    TrustArc vs OneTrust

     

    Capability TrustArc PrivacyCentral OneTrust Privacy Automation
    Pre-built laws, regulations & frameworks 140+ standards (GDPR, EU AI Act, DPDPA, CCPA, all 13+ U.S. state laws, PIPEDA, Quebec Law 25, LGPD, PDPA, Global CBPR, NIST, ISO, Nymity PMAF, and more) 55+ standards
    Pre-built controls 20,000+ controls for 140+ standards More limited library and no published equivalent of controls
    Common-control mapping 1,200+ mapped common controls across overlapping laws Limited cross-regulation mapping
    Attestation capability Yes — only privacy platform with business-unit-level attestation against standards maturity Not available
    Operational templates Relevant operational templates for each standard to support operationalization In a separate product (DataGuidance)
    AI assistance Ask Arc, AI Lookup, AI Assistant, AI Evidence Analyzer AI features available; scope varies by product
    Organizational hierarchy Granular configuration by business unit, custom weighting, per-unit effectiveness reporting Organization-wide controls by business unit
    G2 market leadership #1 for Data Privacy Management  Contender tier 
    Support model 24/5 support; dedicated Customer Success Manager, Implementation Manager, and Account Manager included Frequently cited customer complaints on support responsiveness and inconsistent pricing

    PrivacyCentral FAQs

    • What is PrivacyCentral?

      PrivacyCentral streamlines privacy management without any time spent on understanding laws or how to interpret them. Easily assess, measure, and track your organization’s compliance readiness and posture for each standard/law. With PrivacyCentral, you can plan for remediation, measure compliance readiness and control effectiveness, and benchmark across your organization with on-demand reporting.

    • How does PrivacyCentral help with multi-jurisdictional privacy compliance?

      PrivacyCentral has 20,000+ pre-defined controls mapped across 140+ standards. Using intelligent automation, PrivacyCentral can auto-identify applicable laws on Day 1, perform evidence recommendations, and can intelligently reduce compliance work using common controls, letting you answer once to satisfy obligations across GDPR, CCPA, India DPDPA, Quebec Law 25, LGPD, and other standards. PrivacyCentral’s AI algorithms can also scan your company profile and suggest the relevant standards.

    • How much time and money does PrivacyCentral save?

      PrivacyCentral allows teams to understand the requirements of each standard or law with out-of-the-box controls, so privacy and compliance teams do not need to learn, research, and interpret new laws. Teams can easily assess and measure the organization’s compliance readiness and posture, leverage the auto-generated tasks to close compliance gaps, and create on-demand reporting including attestation and benchmarking.

      TrustArc customers see a 75% improvement in time-to-compliance (from 8 weeks to 3 weeks), $645K in reduced privacy-law compliance costs, $82K in audit savings. TrustArc customers experience 70–90% less manual effort and roughly 20% FTE optimization on privacy teams using PrivacyCentral.

    • How does PrivacyCentral help my organization expand our privacy program into a new country or U.S. state?

      Instead of hiring outside counsel at $400–$1,000/hour to interpret a new law, teams use the out-of-the-box controls, automated control effectiveness analysis, and auto-generated task lists to understand, track, and close compliance gaps using PrivacyCentral. The total U.S. compliance cost per new law typically runs $15,000–$60,000 without automation. PrivacyCentral reduces this manual cost and can generate on-demand compliance reporting for board, regulators, and auditors (e.g., ISO).

    • Can I use spreadsheets or a generic GRC tool for privacy compliance?

      Spreadsheets and generic GRC tools weren’t built for the pace and specificity of modern privacy law. Specialized privacy management software surpasses GRC tools in privacy program confidence and dramatically outperforms internally developed or free privacy tools, according to the 2025 Benchmarks Report.

      GRC platforms lack the 20,000+ privacy and security specific controls on data protection, common-control mapping, cross-border data-transfer analysis, and BCR-level attestation that privacy teams need. Spreadsheets require a manual update for law changes and can be hard to scale in terms of remediation tasks and reporting in minutes. Privacy teams that stay on general-purpose tools tend to fall behind on amendments and spend significantly more time on manual tracking.

    • Who can benefit the most from PrivacyCentral?

      Privacy, legal, and compliance teams at global organizations can leverage the automation and capabilities to track and report on compliance across 140+ global privacy laws and frameworks. It’s an ideal fit for multi-national enterprises with a dedicated privacy function (e.g., Chief Privacy Officer, Data Protection Officer, Compliance, Legal, General Counsel, and GRC lead) that’s moved past initial setup and now needs to self-assess, benchmark, remediate, and report at scale. Teams relying on spreadsheets, outside counsel, or generic GRC tools can benefit from the speed, scale, and savings benefits of PrivacyCentral.

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