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Introducing Two Operational Transparency Tools in to Govern the Capacity to Trust Digital Identity with Standards
In today's digital world, the agency of the individual is a critical requirement that is often missing. We need to address the current harms and imbalances by focusing on technology's directionality and who benefits from the system. This concept, also known as proportionate transparency, ensuring reciprocal data control, is useful to governs govern relationships in digital spaces and ensure that human remains in control of their data flows. To achieve this, operational transparency becomes the key to activating agency, enabling us to move safely and freely in the digital landscape and establish trusted digital relationships.
While many "trust assurance" programs rely on static processes such as periodic audits, trust itself is dynamic. These programs primarily focus on the individual, providing information about them and tracking their every move. However, none of this data is shared with the individual, limiting the capacity for people to trust these digital relationships. This limitation hampers our digital freedoms limiting our individual ability to see and control the flow of our own personal data in context.
Over the past decade, organizations like the Kantara Initiative, OpenConsent, Digital Transparency Lab, and Surveillance Trust have dedicated their efforts to transform this landscape. The Consent Receipt, initially designed to serve as a record of digital relationships, has revealed that what currently passes as consent online is actually permissions actioned by an 'I Agree' opt-in, with no proof that the 'User' has the minimum knowledge to be able to consent legally.
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We invite you to join us on this transformative journey towards building the human capacity to trust in digital identity standards. Together, we can shape a digital world with that empowered individuals by prioritizing with operational transparency to enable that provide you with agency, freedom, and trust. (For more information, click here)