This infographic explains how to build and maintain a comprehensive data inventory as the foundation of privacy compliance and risk management. It outlines four key phases: planning, building the inventory, assessing risk, and publishing results. The document emphasizes defining goals, identifying data ownership, engaging subject matter experts, and ensuring sustainability over time. It highlights methods such as interviews, surveys, and automated discovery tools to capture processing activities. Once built, the inventory is used to identify high-risk processing, cross-border data flows, AI usage, and sensitive data categories. The final step focuses on publishing and maintaining the inventory as a living resource that supports ROPAs, PIAs, regulatory inquiries, and continuous compliance.

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