Crosswalk pair
Apple App Store Kids Category and GDPR, control by control
A shared set of canonical controls in Keel’s library satisfy clauses of both Apple App Store Kids Category and GDPR. Implement each once, attach the evidence once, and it counts toward each standard. The overlap is the work you don’t repeat.
Apple App Store Kids Category counts as one of your plan’s paid frameworks, or from $39/mo as an add-on. GDPR counts as one of your plan’s paid frameworks, or from $39/mo as an add-on. See plans and pricing.
The overlap
What the two libraries have in common
Every figure here counts canonical controls in Keel’s library, not clauses of either standard. Each standard’s own authored count is on its framework page.
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Apple App Store Kids Category 15%
Share of Keel’s Apple App Store Kids Category controls that also map to GDPR.
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GDPR 4%
Share of the 50+ controls in Keel’s library for GDPR that also map to Apple App Store Kids Category.
The mapping
Controls that satisfy both
Each row is one control in Keel’s library and the clauses it answers on each side. Do the work once; both columns are then evidenced by the same artifacts.
| Canonical control | Apple App Store Kids Category clauses | GDPR clauses |
|---|---|---|
| Data Protection & Privacy | ||
| Minimized collection in children’s activities Games, prize offerings and other activities aimed at children are reviewed so participation is never conditioned on disclosing more personal information than the activity reasonably needs, and the technical identifiers and location signals the app stores prohibit in children’s apps are neither collected nor transmitted. | 1.3/no-third-party-transfer | Art.5(1) |
| Verifiable parental consent Verifiable parental consent is obtained and recorded before a child’s personal information is collected, used or disclosed, using a method reasonably calculated to confirm the person consenting is the parent, with separate consent for disclosure to third parties. Note that an app-store parental gate is not the same thing as verifiable parental consent, and neither substitutes for the other. | 5.1.4(a)/birthdate-parental-contact | Art.8(1), Art.8(2) |
Beyond the pair
Where else this work counts
A framework is lit when a shared control above also maps to it. Unlit means none of them do, which is an absence rather than a judgment about that standard.
Also reached by these controls
- AI Governance Essentials not reached
- Amazon Appstore Child-Directed Apps not reached
- CIS Critical Security Controls not reached
- COPPA also reached
- ESG Essentials not reached
- EU AI Act not reached
- FedRAMP 20x not reached
- FedRAMP Consolidated Rules not reached
- FedRAMP Rev5 Class B not reached
- FedRAMP Rev5 Class C not reached
- FedRAMP Rev5 Class D not reached
- Google Play Families also reached
- HIPAA not reached
- ISO 9001 not reached
- ISO/IEC 27001 not reached
- ISO/IEC 42001 not reached
- NIST AI Risk Management Framework not reached
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework not reached
- NIST SP 800-171 not reached
- NIST SP 800-53 not reached
- PCI DSS not reached
- PIPEDA not reached
- SOC 2 not reached
- SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) Section 404 not reached
- US Employment Law - Federal Baseline not reached
The thesis
Why this is one project, not two
On a crosswalk-native model, GDPR mostly lights up controls you already built for Apple App Store Kids Category. You’re not re-uploading the same screenshot for a second audit. You apply the framework and see the genuine delta worth working. That’s the whole idea behind collect once, comply everywhere.
Next step
Add GDPR to the work you already did
Apply both frameworks in one workspace and see the overlap measured against the controls you already hold.