Privacy law is not static. The EDPB publishes new guidelines, the AEPD updates its guides, and new EU instruments come into force. miniterms tracks these changes for you and tells you when a document you generate may need another look.
What miniterms tracks
Every Monday, miniterms checks three official feeds for new items:
- EDPB — news, including new or revised guidelines
- EU Official Journal (EUR-Lex) — new EU legislation
- AEPD — published resolutions
New items go into an internal review queue, not straight to you. We read each one, and when it affects the documents miniterms generates, we add it to Law updates in your dashboard.
The Law updates page
Law updates lists the changes that apply to the jurisdictions ticked in your business profile (all of them, if none is ticked). Each update shows:
- a severity — critical, high, medium or low
- the authority and the date the change was published or took effect
- a short summary and what you should do
- the documents it affects, each linking to the generator for that document
- links to the official sources
Mark an update Mark reviewed once you have dealt with it; the page records the date. Until then it counts as open, and the dashboard Overview shows how many open updates need your review.
When to regenerate vs. amend by hand
- Regenerate when the change is upstream — a new EDPB guideline, an AEPD update, a change to the LOPDGDD. The safest path is a fresh generation from your profile.
- Amend by hand only when the change is to your business (new product, new sub-processor, new processing purpose) and is small. miniterms has no editor for the generated text, so you make that edit in your own copy — and a fresh generation will not carry it. Redo your own edits after every regeneration.
The dashboard never regenerates for you. The decision is yours: regenerating changes the date in the generation stamp at the bottom of the document.
What a generated document records
Every document generated from your business profile ends with:
- a Sources section listing the regulatory sources behind its clauses, each with the date it was retrieved and a link
- a generation stamp:
Generated YYYY-MM-DD · miniterms library vX.Y.Z
Each document type keeps one current saved draft, with a version number that goes up every time you save. For documents synced to Dekimu Hub, Changes since last publish shows a word-level diff between your current draft and the version captured at your last sync. miniterms keeps no history of older drafts: keep the copies you publish if you need to show later what your policy said on a given date.
The weekly check runs from our side; there is no way to trigger it yourself.