Fides Compass: a privacy intelligence dictionary

Introduction

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use Fides Compass, a privacy dictionary, to autocomplete system and data use information. By the end of this tutorial, you'll understand how to specify a vendor profile and retrieve suggestions from the dictionary.

Prerequisites

For this tutorial you will need:

• A Fides Cloud or Fides Enterprise account with access to Fides Compass.
• The role of Owner or Contributor for your Fides organization.

Using Fides Compass to autocomplete information

To use Fides Compass to autocomplete system information, you must:

1. Specify the type of vendor
2. Retrieve system info
3. Retrieve data uses and cookies

Specify a vendor profile

When adding a new system or editing an existing system, you may associate a vendor profile with the system in order to retrieve suggestions from Compass.

To link a vendor profile to a new system:

1. Navigate to Data map → Add systems.
2. Click Add a system.
3. Locate the Vendor drop-down menu in the System details section.
4. Select the correct vendor and then select Show suggestions.

To link a vendor profile to an existing system:

1. Navigate to Data map → View systems and locate the system.
2. Click on the system to enter its information portal.
3. Locate the Vendor drop-down menu in the System details section.
4. Select the correct vendor.
5. Click the Fides Compass button and then Show suggestions.

Retrieve system information

Once a vendor profile has been associated with a system, suggestions for system information may be retrieved (or hidden) using the Fides Compass button.

Retrieve data use and cookie information

Compass contains a comprehensive list of business purposes for each vendor describing which types of personal data are collected, complete with commonly used legal bases, data categories, cookies, and other relevant information.

To retrieve these suggestions for a new system, please:

1. Click on the Data uses tab
2. Click on the button titled Generate data uses automatically
3. Pick the data uses that you want to populate or choose Accept all to populate all of them

To retrieve these suggestions for an existing system, please:

1. Navigate to Data map → View systems and locate the system
2. Click on the system to enter its information portal
3. Click on the Data uses tab
4. Click the Fides Compass button
5. Pick the data uses that you want to populate or choose Accept all to populate all of them

Next you will learn to visualize, filter and build reports such as a RoPA (Record of Processing Activities).