METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC DISCOVERY OF DATA MODEL ALLOWING CUSTOMIZATION OF CONSUMER APPLICATIONS ACCESSING PRIVACY DATA

To address the requirements described above, the present invention discloses a method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for providing access and accepting changes to personal information stored in a data warehouse. The method comprises the steps of accepting a privacy information request from a client, retrieving privacy metadata describing the selected privacy information, translating the privacy information request to a data warehouse-compliant query using the privacy information metadata, and transmitting the query to the data warehouse. The apparatus comprises a program storage device tangibly embodying instructions for performing the method steps above. The apparatus comprises a privacy metadata subsystem, communicatively coupled to a data warehouse for retrieving privacy metadata and a consumer access subsystem communicatively coupled to the data warehouse and the privacy metadata subsystem. The consumer access subsystem accepts a request for privacy information from the client, translates the request to a data warehouse-compliant query, transmits the query to the data warehouse, and forwards data responsive to the query to the client.