Trust & Consent

For real trust and consent to be possible, organisations need to be as open and as transparent as the people are to them. Reciprocity and proportionality are critical requirements in this relationship.

Active Transparency

At OpenConsent we provide solutions for organisation that begin with active transparency. This is because, people by nature are decentralised beings, which is why people need technology that supports decentralised interactions and relationships. Today, people and companies literally operate in the dark about their state of privacy and surveillance. This is a critical cybersecurity and privacy risk as there is no active transparency.

Active transparency opens a lot of possibilities. A key factor being that people can more easily trust to share more personal data, and organisations can reduce the notice and policy friction that comes with privacy online.

The core technology developed at OpenConsent is Consent Receipt Notice System. It is used to automate active transparency and in this system a digital Notice Receipt is used to maintain transparency after personal data is shared.

If your organisation is interested in Consent Receipts, or designing a consent receipt system for Active Transparency, we offer professional services to help your organisations implement and we are happy to help.

Open notice receipts

Digital active transparency scales when built with standards that are interoperable and open.

A key issue to be resolved has been the lack of a common set of rules and roles that cover the control of personal data, suitable for multiple types of consent.

Efforts at ISO and the Kantara Initiative have developed a core set of framework components to establish and manage an active state of privacy digitally.

A core component and innovation has been the creation and provision of the OPN Notice Receipt.

The Notice Receipt Schema focuses on the common set of notice requirements for Data Controller Identification for digital consent.

A key conformance requirement for digitally consent is a legally compliant notice.

An OPN Notice Receipt is proof of a compliant notice and a claim the person has read this notice. It is a digital identity record designed to fit privacy governance frameworks internationally.

Similar to the concept of a ping to check the availability of a remote network host, an OPN Notice Receipt is a remote governance framework check to see if and what open governance frameworks exist for informed distributed interactions.

 White Hat Privacy ENGINEERING

At OpenConsent we work to engineer solutions, and systems that improve themselves.

White Hat Privacy focus on privacy ethics in the delivery of our engineering services.

Data Controller REgistry

The United Kingdom since 1998 has operated a data controller and CCTV registry, mandatory for high risk processing of personal data. This required registry provides the international baseline for enforceable operational governance. 

This governance in concert with the updated European Privacy law ‘GDPR’ has set the standards for privacy people can expect.