PACMap Is Live - And It’s Open Source!
and more importantly: free
I built something. And I’m excited to share it with you.
For the last several weeks, I’ve been working on a project called PACMap - the Privacy, AI & Cybersecurity Map. It’s a free, open-source regulatory intelligence platform that tracks global cybersecurity, data privacy, and AI regulations in one place.
It’s live now at pacmap.dev.
Why This Exists
If you’ve ever had to answer the question “what regulations apply to us?” - you know the pain. You’re digging through government websites, PDFs, scattered news articles, and maybe paying for an expensive commercial database that still doesn’t have everything you need. There’s no single, free, well-organized source of truth for global cyber, privacy, and AI regulation data.
That bothered me. So I built one.
PACMap currently tracks 800+ regulations across 160+ jurisdictions worldwide, spanning legislation from the 1970s through proposed bills that haven’t been enacted yet. It covers four categories: cybersecurity, privacy and data protection, artificial intelligence, and cross-section laws that span multiple categories.
What’s Inside
Here’s what you get when you visit:
An interactive dashboard with summary stats, charts by category, region, and status - plus a heatmap globe showing regulatory density by country. A full-text search that lets you filter by jurisdiction, category, legislative status, date range, and keywords. Regulation detail pages with structured breakdowns of each law - scope, enforcement, key requirements, deadlines, cross-references, and links to official sources. A visual timeline of when regulations were proposed, adopted, and enforced. A compliance calendar for upcoming deadlines. Data confidence indicators on every entry so you know how reliable each record is. And an AI-powered research agent that automatically finds and adds new regulations weekly, so the platform stays current without manual updates.
The kind of thing you can use at your desk but also pull up in a board meeting without anyone asking why it looks like a hacking tool.
The Builder’s Mindset
Here’s where the THOR Collective thread comes in.
We’ve been talking all season about builders showing up. About AI lowering the barrier. About practitioners creating the tools they wish existed instead of waiting for a vendor to maybe get around to it.
PACMap is me doing exactly that.
I’m not a full-time software engineer. I’m a cybersecurity professional who got tired of a gap in the market and decided to close it myself. I used Claude Code as my primary development partner - Python backend with FastAPI, React frontend, the whole stack. The AI didn’t build it for me. I still had to know what I wanted, make the design decisions, validate the output, security scan everything, and push through every phase. But it made a solo side project of this scope actually possible.
That’s the real message: if you can clearly describe what you need and you’re willing to put in the work, you can build things that used to require a team.
It’s Free. It’s Open Source. It’s Yours.
No ads. No paywalls. PACMap is a free resource for the community. I may add a donation option down the road to cover that, but the platform itself will stay free.
For the Community
This is where the community part matters.
PACMap currently has 831 regulations ingested and growing. But there are hundreds more out there, and regulations change constantly. I need people to tell me what’s missing, what’s wrong, and what needs updating.
If you spot a regulation that’s not in there - let me know. If something’s outdated or inaccurate - flag it. If your jurisdiction isn’t well represented - I want to hear about it.
You can submit to the project at contact@pacmap.dev or through the usual THOR Collective channels.
What’s Next
The roadmap includes email alert subscriptions by jurisdiction or category, side-by-side regulation comparison, compliance mapping to frameworks like NIST CSF and ISO 27001, controls exports, a public API, and so much more.
But right now, the most important thing is that it’s live, it’s free, and it’s built for you.
Go check it out: pacmap.dev
PACMap is an independent, community-oriented project. Corrections, suggestions, and missing regulation reports are always welcome.