ANCR Work Group
ANCR (Anchored Notice and Consent Receipt) is digital public-privacy infrastructure focused, which means specified in complaince with the letter of privacy law, and in conformance with the ISO/IEC 29100 standard that is used to generate ANCR Transparency Performance Indicator Report for valid digital consent.
ANCR refers to generating record of a notice based activity, the individual can use to anchor a data subject relationship to the PII Controller's identity. A Notice Receipt can be re-used as a consent token for a secondary purpose specified by the individual. Which is what makes ANCR special.
ANCR’d notice, notifications and disclosures require a record of processing activities and the associated authorities. ANCR’d, by the data subject, notice and consent receipts, and credential based records specific to a purpose, and its specified scope of disclosure.
The PII Controller Identification and PII Controller Notice allows the PII Principal (data subject) to measure the operational transparency of the controller and its organization. With this in hand Alice can develop an understanding and begin to make risk decisions on her own behalf. This WG is publishing a set of 4 measure of transparency that we refer to as Transparency Performance Indicators (TPIs) when used together are a method for Transparency Performance Reporting.
Latest: May 2025
ANCR TPI-Report now in public review:
The publication is put forth as a Kantara Recommendation for public comment by the Anchored Notice and Consent Receipts (ANCR) Work Group. Feb 25, 2025.
https://kantara.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WA/blog/2025/02/14/875200525
https://kantara.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WA/blog/2025/03/03/904527883
The ANCR WG lobbies for standard ISO/IEC 27560 Consent record information structure be free to access,
About
ANCR WG - The work here continues the Consent Receipt work at the Kantara Initiative, which has been ongoing since 2013, in the Information and Sharing Work Group, later the Consent and Information Sharing WG, and now the ANCR WG.
The Consent Receipt v1.1 was published and then included as an Annex, in the ISO/IEC 29184 Online privacy notices and consent standard in 2020.
ISO/IEC 27560 Consent record information structure published August 2023 further incorporates the Consent Receipt. The current ANCR WG effort incorporates and extends this record. The Transparency Performance Reporting WG Recommendation (Draft) builds on this work which is out for public comment until May 5, 2024.
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Officers
WG Chair - Salvatore D'Agostino
WG Vice- Chair - Tim Reiniger
WG Editor - Mark Lizar
WG Secretary - Giglilolla Agassini
Roles of Leadership
Teleconference Info - All hands ANCR-WG (projects co-ordination) call
Kantara Calendar (source of truth): https://kantarainitiative.org/calendars/
TIME: 1:00 pm ET, 5:00 pm GMT
DAY: Bi-Weekly on Wednesday
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Meeting ID: 872 8226 3538
Passcode: 255697
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Royalty Free IPR
This ANCR WG operates under the Kantara IPR Option:
Reciprocal and Royalty Free, with opt-out to Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (RAND).