Open source cheat sheet for web designers and developers to implement data protection relevant tasks according to current law (GDPR).
Initiated by Peter Haurand and Mirko Schubert
Experience GDPR compliance assessment like never before:
- ⚡ Real-time Assessment - Interactive checklists with instant scoring
- 📊 Visual Reports - Professional compliance reports with category breakdowns
- 💾 Export & Share - Save assessments as JSON or generate PDF reports
- 🌍 Multilingual - Complete support for English and German
- 📱 Responsive Design - Works perfectly on all devices
- 🎯 Extensible - Ready for AI Act, accessibility, and copyright compliance
Quick Start: Ready-to-use GDPR checklists for developers. View Interactive Documentation • 🇩🇪 Deutsche Checkliste • 🇺🇸 English Cheat Sheet
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- Contribute: Legal updates, translations, technical improvements
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This Data Protection Cheat Sheet is intended to serve as a general orientation for web designers and developers as well as, of course, for every interested website operator in order to prepare websites and commissioned works in accordance with currently valid German and European law.
Peter and I have taken the knowledge we have gathered over the past few months on the occasion of the GDPR and developed this list. It is still "work-in-progress" - currently I am, for example, searching for the relevant legal bases, judgments and statements / articles of lawyers. We also invite everyone to contribute via this Github repository .
The Data Protection Checklist cannot address individual cases and does not constitute legal advice, but is merely a collection of knowledge that has been compiled from extensive research, our own experience and "best practices" of various developers and is constantly being further developed. We assume no liability and recommend to consult a lawyer for legal questions in any case.
This repository thrives on community contributions! We welcome developers, legal experts, and privacy enthusiasts to help improve these resources.
- Content: Update legal requirements, add implementation tips, fix typos
- Translation: Help translate checklists to new languages
- Technical: Improve website, accessibility, or documentation structure
- Issues: Report bugs or suggest new features via Issues
- Pull Requests: Submit changes directly through Pull Requests
New to contributing? Check our Contributing Guidelines for detailed instructions.
- Bug Reports & Feature Requests: GitHub Issues
- Community Chat: Matrix #privacy-cheat-sheet:matrix.org
- Discussions: GitHub Discussions
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