The Data Privacy Vocabulary [DPV] enables expressing machine-readable metadata about the use and processing of (personal or otherwise) data and technologies based on legislative requirements such as the General Data Protection Regulation [GDPR]. This document describes the DPV specification along with its data model. The canonical URL for DPV is https://w3id.org/dpv which contains (this) specification. The namespace for DPV terms is https://w3id.org/dpv#, the suggested prefix is dpv, and this document along with source and releases are available at https://github.com/w3c/dpv. A changelog this version is provided in the appendix.