Creating sustainable Real Consent

This event is being organised by Mark Lizar, from Smart Species Ltd, who co-leads the Personal Data & Trust Network's 'consent' working group with Richard Beaumont. The group's focus is on innovating and engineering consent at scale for personal data sharing, controlled by the individual. On Data Privacy Day (28 January 2016) the group started the ‘Real Consent' journey with a series of workshops assessing the market consent compliance gap, and how to make consent real and meaningful for individuals. The last event Real Consent and a Look at Trust was held in May, which delved deep into the systemic issues underlying current consent technology and trust for personal data sharing.

During this next event, we are presenting the initial interventions developed following the May event to solve challenges around consent. We'll then investigate what the other required interventions and joint actions are to grow the ecosystem of consent-driven personal data sharing. Notably we will report on:

• the Digital Catapult's concierge system upgrade, including the first ever digital consent receipt issued for physical spaces, provided to new visitors upon signing in
• a paper generated from the Real Consent collaboration in response to a call from the Office of The Privacy Commissioner Canada
• an update and presentations from the hackathon and Real Consent session at the MyData conference in Helsinki (30 Aug - 2 Sept)
• With a proposed hack to use the Real Consent prototypes to solve privacy policy user experience issues at scale 
• Along with another project proposed to generate express consent experiences.  

During this event we will try to answer the following questions: 

• What are other existing initiatives around consent, personal data and trust? 
• What is the real potential of consent receipt? How large adoption can be achieved?
• What open consent means and what is the role of consent receipts?
• Do consent receipts make you GDPR ready? What else might be required?

Agenda

10:00 - arrive + refreshments

10:30 - welcome, introductions, overview of the Digital Catapult's Personal Data and Trust Network (Mark Lizar and Community Manager, Personal Data & Trust Network, Kathryn Geels)

10:45 Digital Catapult implementation of consent receipts (Lead Technologist, Personal Data and Trust, Digital Catapult, Michele Nati)

11:05 MyData conference round up (TBC)

11:25 Interoperability and open consent (Director, Coelition, Joss Langford)

11:45 User-managed access and consent receipts (TBC)

12:05 - Showcase of prototypes for Real Consent 

12:45 - Networking lunch

13:45 The OPC: Open Consent paper - (Mark Lizar)

• Latest consent receipt specifications

• Kantara implementations

• Scalable and sustainable Real Consent

14:30 - Group discussion and roadmap activity: how adoption of consent receipt can be fostered? What is its role in the open consent? What additional tools and intervention are required? (Michele Nati and Mark Lizar)

15:30 - Closing remarks and next steps 

15:45 - Finish

We'll be discussing with workshop participants who are interested, to investigate how the consent-based personal data-sharing ecosystem could grow and what could be the joint action to develop such an ecosystem. This will be with the requisite that they are members of the Personal Data & Trust Network.   

This workshop is aimed at people working in SMEs, social enterprises, service and solutions providers, consumer-focused organisations, public bodies, research bodies and funding organisations who share the value of and want to help develop these interventions and interested in pledging to adopt consent receipts and the open consent framwework. We anticipate that those attending will be / become members of the Personal Data & Trust Network prior to the event. You can join at http://pdtn.org. The PD&TN will be the first to test, try out and get access to use the prototypes being produced.