Central data protection and privacy framework

One or more non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer program code comprising sets of instructions to:

• store a plurality of application objects and business scenarios, each application object comprising a machine-processable data structure that represents an identifiable business data entity managed within an enterprise application and linked to a particular data category of a plurality of data categories defining privacy or government classification, linked with a name of a corresponding data object, and linked with primary key attributes of the corresponding data object comprising an underlying database or persistence model name, wherein each particular data category is linked to a purpose of a plurality of purposes, wherein each business scenario includes a set of application objects and a sequence for the set of application objects;
• obtain a plurality of worklist entries generated in response to a particular instances of application objects for a plurality of different applications being created or modified;
• for each worklist entry of the plurality of worklist entries, determine one or more purposes for the particular application object of the worklist entry using a stored purpose-assignment rule that references the data category and the primary key attributes of the corresponding application object;
• store each of the one or more determined purposes for the particular application object in a purpose assignment table;
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• integrate each determined purpose for master data to be used in the plurality of different applications.

A computer-implemented method, comprising:

• storing a plurality of application objects and business scenarios, each application object comprising a machine-processable data structure that represents an identifiable business data entity managed within an enterprise application and linked to a particular data category of a plurality of data categories defining privacy or government classification, linked with a name of a corresponding data object comprising an underlying database or persistence model name, and linked with primary key attributes of the corresponding data object, wherein each particular data category is linked to a purpose of a plurality of purposes, wherein each business scenario includes a set of application objects and a sequence for the set of application objects;
• obtaining a plurality of worklist entries generated in response to a particular instances of application objects for a plurality of different applications being created or modified;
• for each worklist entry of the plurality of worklist entries, determining one or more purposes for the particular application object of the worklist entry using a stored purpose-assignment rule that references the data category and the primary key attributes of the corresponding application object;
• storing each of the one or more determined purposes for the particular application object in a purpose assignment table;
• and
• integrating each determined purpose for master data to be used across the plurality of different applications.