Consent Receipt Key Generation for Privacy Compliance

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current systems lack effective methods for managing consent and personal data processing, particularly in ensuring compliance with privacy and security policies, leading to frequent breaches and unauthorized access to sensitive information.

Innovation Solution

A computer-implemented data processing method that generates a unique consent receipt key for transactions, associates it with a data subject's identifier, and stores this information for secure consent management, enabling transparent consent tracking and compliance with privacy policies.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If organizations implement manual consent management processes, then operational flexibility is maintained, but compliance reliability deteriorates due to frequent breaches and unauthorized access

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompliance reliabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a third-party consent management system that acts as an intermediary between data subjects and organizations. This system generates and manages consent receipts with unique identifiers, providing a neutral platform that enhances compliance reliability without requiring organizations to build complex internal consent management infrastructure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback mechanisms by providing consent receipts to data subjects and enabling verification of consent status. This creates a closed-loop system where consent decisions can be tracked, verified, and audited, significantly improving compliance reliability through continuous monitoring and verification.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If comprehensive consent tracking is implemented, then compliance with privacy policies improves, but data processing time increases due to additional verification steps

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprivacy policy complianceVSAvoiddata processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by generating consent receipts and storing consent information in advance of actual data processing activities. This pre-established consent framework allows for rapid verification during data processing operations, maintaining high compliance standards without adding significant time delays to processing workflows.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates simplified copies of consent information through standardized consent receipts with unique identifiers. These digital copies enable rapid verification and tracking without requiring access to or processing of the full consent documentation, thereby maintaining compliance while minimizing time loss.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

3Reliability

If manual consent management processes are used, then system complexity is minimized, but data security deteriorates leading to frequent breaches

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata securityVSAvoidconsent management system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a third-party consent management system that acts as an intermediary between data subjects and organizations. This system generates and manages consent receipts with unique identifiers, providing a neutral platform that enhances compliance reliability without requiring organizations to build complex internal consent management infrastructure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service capabilities where data subjects can access and verify their own consent status through the third-party platform. This automated self-verification mechanism enhances data security by reducing manual intervention and potential human error, while the standardized receipt system keeps overall complexity manageable.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS11461500B2Data processing systems for cookie compliance testing with website scanning and related methods
Publication Date: 2022.10.04 ONETRUST LLC
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AI summary

A method for scanning a website and tracking data subject interaction with the website, comprising: determining a data subject is interacting with a particular website; determining one or more website parameters associated with the particular website, the one or more website parameters associated with the particular website include scanning the particular website to determine website cookies that capture data subject information, and determining a website category of the particular website; determining a geo-location of the data subject when the data subject is interacting with the particular website; determining one or more data subject consent parameters based at least in part on the one or more website parameters associated with the particular website and the geo-location of the data subject when the data subject is interacting with the particular website; and applying the one or more data subject consent parameters to the data subject interaction with the particular website.