I have observed that we are living in a time of uncertainty, in which surprises happen every day.
This week has been no exception. As I type this, Donald Trump and Elon Musk are feuding, with accusations of pedophilia leveled against Trump, threats to yank the government contracts of Musk, and who knows what all. Just a typical week in Washington.
But that’s nothing compared to the shocking news I learned Friday morning.
Sit down and don’t bother to bring out your CHF wallet
Biometric Update just published an article that discusses a particular International Organization for Standardization (with the zeds) standard, ISO/IEC-TEC TS 27560:2023, Privacy technologies — Consent record information structure.
- It’s not shocking that ISO has published a standard. It does this all the time.
- It’s also not shocking that ISO published a standard on consent. Consent is required by many privacy regulations, and therefore a standard information structure for consent requests is beneficial throughout the European Union, California, Illinois, and elsewhere.
“This document builds upon ISO/IEC 29184 by addressing the concept of giving the PII principal a record for their own recordkeeping, which includes information about the PII processing agreement and interaction. We call this record the “consent receipt”.
“This document specifies a structure that is used by both principals in consent management: namely a specification for data to be held by the organization to allow record-keeping with good integrity (subject to the defined controls), and an artefact (the “consent receipt”) that is given to the individual whose PII is being processed.”
- No, none of this is the shocking part. I’ll let Chris Burt reveal the surprise, but please sit down before you read this. Emphasis mine.
“The International Standards Organization has published a standard for obtaining and recording consent, as is necessary to legally use people’s biometric data in a number of jurisdictions, and is making it available for free.”
Yes, you read that correctly. FREE. As in ZERO CHF.
ISO doesn’t normally give standards away, but there’s an exception for this one.
As a result, I have “purchased” this ISO standard—the first one that Bredemarket has ever owned.
But I can’t share it with you. Get your own.
Bredemarket 