PrivacyLens privacy law lookup

Quickly find in-effect privacy laws and nuances by jurisdiction, without manual cross-border compliance research

Problem

A privacy PM at a large company struggled to quickly look up in-effect privacy laws and nuances jurisdiction by jurisdiction, and manually curated resources are scattered. On HN someone built a free resource with Claude Code, showing real demand for structured lookup.

Solution

Structure key points of privacy laws per jurisdiction (effective date, scope, data subject rights, penalties), provide a filterable comparison table and Q&A-style search, plus change alerts.

Users

Privacy compliance specialists, legal teams at global companies, SaaS founders, DPOs

MVP

Cover 10 major jurisdictions like GDPR and CCPA first; provide structured field filters and side-by-side comparison; support email alerts on law updates; allow user-contributed additions

Revenue

Basic lookup free; team subscription for alerts, exportable reports, and API; paid compliance briefings for enterprises

Why now

Global privacy legislation updates are密集 and AI lowers curation cost; an indie can add lightweight value with structured data and alerts