My Data Consent Tech is Public Privacy

Mark Lizar
Aug 28, 2017 · 2 min read

Updates for the consent receipt and how to make consent interoperable policy.

Intro

If you live in a country where you can vote then you live in a society that is ruled by the principles of consent. Consent is a concept that goes deep to the core of democratic society.

Over the last 40 years we have seen the core of what is now consent technology develop from privacy principles like OECD Fair Information Practice Principles, into best practices, standards, legal directives and now enforceable legislation.

New legislation, which in the EU alone includes; the General Data Protection Regulation(GDPR), ePrivacy Directive Update Law, Payment Services Directive, reflect that fundamentally, society is about people, community, environment. Not only technology, security and commercial interests.

These new legislations combined to create Public Privacy, the core consent technology that has turned principle and best practices (followed by only some organisations) into Public Privacy, that can be enforced not just be regulators, but by citizens themself. This is great for making consent work

Making Consent Work

We are excited to be apart of leading the Consent Track: at My Data 2017 with an expert workshop on making consent work.

For those of you at My Data who are interested in consent and My Data interop from a consent policy perspective, and/or are attending the Consent Track workshop (Sign Up Here). There is an update to the Kantara Consent receipt and also a brand new supplement on How to Specify a Purpose & Purpose Categories. (to make consent work)

Both are about 80% to a first draft for comment, but, in the spirit of My Data, interoperability and the workshop we have decided to share these and invite those of you who are interested to check out the latest stuff and comment on at the consent workshop.

(note: Everyone is invited to comment by joining the work group and commenting directly)

Getting Involved

For those of you who are not aware of Kantara the Kantara Initiative: Consent & Information Sharing WG (CISWG) is where work on a consent reciepts has be developing since 2012. Over the summer CISWG has been working on Consent Receipt v1.1 draft 3 and policy interoperability with offical guidance on how to specify purpose. (link posted above)

The mailing list is open and to contribute to the specification there is an open standards IPR agreement, which entitles you to submit comments, and provide input formally to specifications. .

If you have any issues or comments about the spec that you would like to raise, there is a public GITHUB issues list that we are work from. (Responses and issues welcome)

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Mark Lizar

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Co-Founder and CEO of OpenConsent — into Privacy, Security, Identity, Engineering:

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