Consent Receipt Management System for Privacy Compliance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems lack effective methods for managing personal data consent and compliance with privacy and security policies, particularly in handling sensitive personal data and ensuring data subjects' rights, such as consent management and data access requests.
Innovation Solution
A consent receipt management system that includes processors and computer memory for generating unique consent receipts, storing and transmitting identifiers, and enabling data subjects to manage their consent preferences, along with a data processing method for handling consent records and data inventories to ensure compliance with legal and industry standards.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If organizations implement manual consent management processes, then operational flexibility is maintained, but compliance reliability and security are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a consent management system as an intermediary between data subjects and organizations. This system automatically generates consent receipts, stores consent preferences, and manages consent records, thereby ensuring compliance reliability without requiring complex manual processes. The intermediary handles the complexity internally while presenting a simple interface to users.
Solution Approach 2:
The consent management system enables data subjects to self-manage their consent preferences through user interfaces. Users can view, modify, and revoke consent directly through the system, eliminating the need for manual intervention and reducing operational complexity while maintaining compliance reliability.
2Ease of operation
If detailed consent records are maintained for all data subjects, then compliance with data subject rights is improved, but operational complexity and resource requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system generates digital copies of consent information in the form of consent receipts that can be transmitted to data subjects. These electronic copies replace complex physical record-keeping while maintaining full compliance capabilities. The consent receipt contains essential information about consent given, making verification simple and efficient.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transforms consent management from a complex procedural task into a standardized parameter-based process. Consent preferences are stored as structured data with defined parameters (e.g., consent status, timestamp, data subject identifier), enabling automated processing and simplifying management operations while maintaining detailed records.
3Reliability
If consent management systems are implemented, then compliance with privacy regulations is improved, but implementation cost and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The consent management system is designed as a universal platform that can serve multiple functions: generating consent receipts, storing consent preferences, managing consent records, and transmitting information to data subjects. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate systems for each compliance requirement, thereby lowering overall implementation complexity and cost while maintaining comprehensive regulation compliance.
Data Source
AI summary
A consent receipt management and data processing system may be configured to provide a centralized repository of consent receipt preferences for a plurality of data subjects. In various embodiments, the system is configured to provide an interface to the plurality of data subjects for modifying consent preferences and capture consent preference changes. The system may provide the ability to track the consent status of pending and confirmed consents. In other embodiments, the system may provide a centralized repository of consent receipts that a third-party system may reference when taking one or more actions related to a processing activity.