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Data Legal Drive

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Category median

Proven sovereignty

0–5 in half steps. 5 means the rubric's top anchor is met on the evidence.

by Data Legal Drive SAS · datalegaldrive.com

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The In-House Counsel

Weighted verdict

Answers personally when the authority writes. Optimizes for defensibility: request clocks that never slip, a breach workflow that produces the Art. 33 notification, regime coverage that matches where the company actually operates. Rejects tools whose legal content nobody maintains.

Same scores as the panel view — this lens weights them the way this judge cares.

Scored by The In-House Counsel

Records & DPIA depth

How this is scored

The DSMS core: records of processing (RoPA/VVT), data protection impact assessments, processor/DPA management and TOMs — how deeply the legal artifacts are modeled and connected.

0 — Document templates in a folder tree; the "register" is a Word file with version numbers in the filename.

3 — A structured RoPA with basic fields and a DPIA questionnaire, but processors, TOMs and legal bases live outside the system.

5 — RoPA and DPIA as linked modules with templates; processor management and TOM assignment exist but are shallow, and group reuse is copy-paste.

8 — A connected data model — processing activities linked to systems, processors, TOMs and legal bases — with DPIA triggers derived from the record, reusable group templates, and outputs a supervisory authority accepts.

10 — Privacy records as a system of record: the RoPA drives DPIAs, processor management and TOM coverage from one data model, multi-client/mandate capability included, and the documentation is audit-ready without manual assembly.

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The In-House Counsel

RoPA and DPIA are genuinely linked — a complete cartography of data, applications, recipients and linked processings, with the register auto-populated from assessment results. But the evidence shows no processor/DPA management, no TOMs register, no DPIA triggers derived from the record, and no reusable group or mandate templates, so the connected model an Art. 30 audit requires is only half built. 3 2 1

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Data subject rights & incidents

How this is scored

The operational half of the DSMS: data subject request handling with statutory clocks, breach register and authority notification, deletion concepts that actually delete.

0 — Requests arrive by email and live there; breaches are a phone call and a memo.

3 — A request log and a breach list exist, but deadlines are manual, intake is unstructured, and deletion rules are documentation rather than workflow.

5 — DSR workflows with the Art. 12 clock tracked, structured breach register with the 72-hour clock, deletion concepts assignable to records; automation is reminders.

8 — Intake channels for requests (portal/form), identity-check support, deadline automation with escalation, breach severity assessment and authority-report output, deletion rules tied to the RoPA with execution tracking.

10 — Rights and incidents as operations: end-to-end request handling an authority audit walks through, breach workflows that produce the Art. 33 notification, and deletion automation with evidence that the deletion happened.

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The In-House Counsel

Structured intake via secure online forms and end-to-end DSR automation with preconfigured scenarios are evidenced, and breach intake is structured rather than a phone call. But nowhere does the evidence show the Art. 12 clock, the 72-hour clock, authority-notification output, or deletion rules tied to the RoPA — those clocks are the product, and silence on them is information. 3 2 1

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Privacy regime coverage

How this is scored

Which privacy regimes the product actually operationalizes — GDPR, BDSG, Swiss nDSG, UK GDPR, ePrivacy, EU AI Act privacy duties — and whether one record maps across them or each regime is a fresh island.

0 — One regime, hard-coded; anything else is "on the roadmap".

3 — GDPR plus one national law as separate checklists; the same processing activity is documented once per regime.

5 — The major regimes for its market with partial cross-mapping; newer duties (AI Act, ePrivacy changes) present as content packs of varying depth.

8 — Broad current coverage with one-record-many-regimes mapping and visible maintenance as regimes evolve.

10 — Regime coverage as a living product: multiple privacy regimes on one data basis, per-country variants, and documented update cadence when the law moves.

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The In-House Counsel

GDPR, UK, US and APAC mandates plus CCPA, LGPD, PDPA and AI Act documentation are claimed natively, which is the breadth a multinational actually needs. What's missing is the part I care about: no evidence of one record mapping across regimes rather than parallel documentation, no per-country variants like BDSG or Swiss nDSG, and no documented update cadence when the law moves — the AI Act support reads as a module, not maintained legal content. 3 2

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Audit readiness & evidence

How this is scored

Whether the system produces defensible proof: revision-safe history, evidence collection, reports for auditors, authorities and management.

0 — Exports are screenshots; history is overwritten in place.

3 — PDF reports exist but evidence is attached ad hoc and changes leave no reliable trail.

5 — Versioned records, standard report generators for the core registers, evidence attachments per activity; assembling a full audit file still takes days.

8 — Revision-safe change history, audit-scoped evidence packs on demand, management and authority reports current at a click, auditor access roles.

10 — Audit readiness as a standing state: continuous documentation status per regime and scope, exportable proof packs an auditor accepts as-is, and a defensible answer to "show me the state on date X".

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The In-House Counsel

Audit-trail claims appear only in sibling modules — whistleblowing investigations, policy attestations, ESG reporting — while the privacy register itself shows no revision-safe change history, no evidence packs, no auditor access roles. I cannot defend a RoPA whose state on date X the vendor does not document anywhere I was shown. 1 3

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Integrations & automation

How this is scored

Whether the platform feeds from the real IT estate — directory import, ticketing, API — and automates the recurring privacy work instead of re-typing it.

0 — A closed island: manual entry in, PDF out, no API.

3 — CSV/Excel import and export; no live connections, no API worth the name.

5 — Directory import (AD/Entra), a documented REST API for core objects, a handful of native connectors (ticketing or SSO); automation is reminders and recurrence.

8 — Real connector set (ticketing, HR or asset sources), webhooks, SSO/SCIM, workflow automation with delegation and escalation, useful AI assistance with human review.

10 — The platform behaves like infrastructure: API parity for the data model, event streams, bidirectional sync with the estate, and automation that measurably removes the recurring toil (reviews, attestations, evidence pulls) rather than renaming it.

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The In-House Counsel

The evidence affirmatively states no API, webhook or integration details are published — integrations appear only as marketing copy about the cost of fragmented tooling. No directory import, no ticketing, no connectors of any kind; internal automation like the DSR scenarios does not feed from the real IT estate. 1 3

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where the compliance record of the whole company actually lives and under whose law — entity, hosting, subprocessors, DPA. A platform that maps your processing is itself your most concentrated processing.

0 — Non-EU entity, non-EU-default hosting, no public DPA or subprocessor list — for the system holding your RoPA.

3 — A DPA exists and an EU region is available on request or on top tiers; subprocessor exposure to US CLOUD Act reach is broad or undocumented.

5 — EU hosting is the default, DPA and subprocessor list published; the vendor or a critical subprocessor is still within non-European jurisdictional reach.

8 — EU entity, EU hosting with named data centers, published subprocessor list free of content-touching non-EU processors, DPA and TOMs public.

10 — Jurisdictionally clean end to end: European ownership, EU-only hosting and subprocessors, on-premises or sovereign-cloud options, and the whole chain documented publicly.

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The In-House Counsel

French SAS with French hosting — Scaleway/Outscale with HDS and SecNumCloud options and dedicated environments on request — which is the right default and more than an EU region on top tiers. But the copyright line and takeover history place the vendor under EQS Group and ultimately US private equity Thoma Bravo, no DPA or subprocessor list is published, and the hosting providers are not formally named as subprocessors — the chain holding my most concentrated processing is not documented end to end. 4 5 6

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Pricing transparency not rated — the vendor publishes no price

How this is scored

Whether a buyer can compute the real invoice — per module, per entity, per year, with consulting unbundled — from public pages alone. Unpublished pricing is the B2B norm in this market, so this criterion describes rather than condemns; the benches weight it accordingly.

0 — No public prices at all; every configuration is a sales conversation.

3 — An entry price exists, but module add-ons, entity counts or bundled consulting make the real total incomputable.

5 — Most editions carry real numbers with billing period stated and software separated from services; at least one commonly needed module or scale step is unpriced.

8 — Every edition and module priced publicly with entity/user boundaries and setup fees stated; only genuine corporate-group contracts are custom.

10 — Complete price computability: modules, scale steps, service packages and renewal rules public, so the invoice for a 100-employee company and a 10-client consultancy is a two-minute exercise.

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The In-House Counsel

No prices, plans or even trial information anywhere captured; the sole call to action is 'Demander une démo'. That is rubric level 0 exactly — the invoice is a sales conversation, whatever the market norm. 1

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European sovereignty — proven facts

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

Ownership Foreign-controlled ⚠ unverified 0/2 pts 5 Report an error
Data residency EU only ⚠ unverified 3/3 pts 4 Report an error
Subprocessors EU only ⚠ unverified 2/2 pts 6 Report an error

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Sources (10)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

  1. 1 Vendor homepage (FR) datalegaldrive.com Checked 16 Sep 2026 +2 earlier captures: 15 Sep 2026, 11 Sep 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Vendor homepage (EN) en.datalegaldrive.com Checked 16 Sep 2026 +1 earlier capture: 24 Aug 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Product page en.datalegaldrive.com Checked 16 Sep 2026 +1 earlier capture: 31 Aug 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Security/sovereignty page en.datalegaldrive.com Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
  5. 5 About page en.datalegaldrive.com Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Legal notice/imprint datalegaldrive.com Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Records & DPIA depth — found from sitemap datalegaldrive.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Records & DPIA depth — found from sitemap datalegaldrive.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Audit readiness & evidence — found from sitemap datalegaldrive.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Audit readiness & evidence — found from sitemap datalegaldrive.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →