Controller Credential Specification Overview

(Draft specification in progress) 

Process in progress:

  1. Updated March 24
  2. Notice Controller Credential Specification
  3. Papers (in progress)
    1. Decentralized Data Governance 
    2. identity interoperability

Notice & Consent Task Force 

Project owner:

Mark Lizar 

Editors

Surveillance Controller EditorSalvatore D'Agostino

Schema Editor: 


Status

ACTIVE 




Notice Controller Credential builds on the Kantara ANCR, Consent Receipt Record format, to provide a digital controller credential,


Introduction

In privacy regulations and for decentralized identity, transparency is a key requirement. As identifiers are personal, used to track, surveil and profile its not only important to know who controls  personal information, but it's required for consent, a critical component of security and a pre-requisite for digital privacy.  Most notices, notifications, T&C's don't use standards to provide the transparency over who control's personal information.  

This is the focus of the Kantara ANCR Record, which is the prefix to consent receipts. 

This controller credential utilizes a reference architecture that began with 1980 OECD Guidelines, and has been worked on for international /internet scalable data governance.  This work has driven regulatory reform and convergence internationally. GDPR refer framework for digital. 

This controller credential specification extends this international governance standard to the Trust over IP Governance Framework and is used to generate purpose specific micro-credentials for the governance of digital information with SSI's.   This enables the use of this reference architecture to scale analogue notice and consent to electronic eNotice and eConsent for digital exchanges and interoperability.  

Reference Architecture

  • 0PN  Transparency WG: Decentralized Data Governance
    • eNotice and eConsent identity & data governance information structure  
  • ISO/IEC 29100
    • ISO/IEC 29100:2011 provides a privacy framework which. specifies a common privacy terminology; defines the actors and their roles in processing personally identifiable information (PII); describes privacy safeguarding considerations; and. provides references to known privacy principles for information technology.
    • ISO/IEC 29184 Online Privacy Notice & Consent 
    • ISO/IEC 27560 WD 5 Consent record information structure 
  • ISO 27002 Series : WG 5 SC27
    • ISO 27001 sets forth the compliance requirements needed to become certified. In contrast, ISO 27002 is a set of guidelines that are designed to help you introduce and implement ISMS best practices.
  • CoE 108+
    • International GDPR - 
      • data governance framework which provides the international enforcement policy baseline suitable for internet scale data control, identity transparency governance and consent
  • W3C Data Privacy Vocabulary 
    • V.5
  • Kantara
    • ANCR Notice Record

Specification Overview 

This specification builds upon the Kantara ANCR Record specification (and Consent Reciept)(ref) to build a notice controller credential for specifying all of the PII Controller's information in a eNotice record. 

The ANCR Record provides Consent Types to anchor a trust record, which the individual owns and controls In a personal data store and profile. 

The Record and Receipt specification uses ISO/IEC 29100 Security and Privacy techniques ref (free ISO specification) terms and definitions to identify the legal stakeholders(ref) and their roles in the processing and control of personal information.    Using international standards for creation of  a regulated data controller credential and for its utility in generating eNotice records and eConsent receipts. 

ISO/IEC 29184 - Online Privacy Notice and Consent Controls  - 

Fields Added to ANCR Record to Create Verifiable Credential

ANCR Record spec - is here (enter link)

This credential is for transparency and accountability for data (and identifier) governance,

The  eNotice (PII) Controller Cresdential, is used to generate eNotice record, for micro-credential PII Principal 

  1. PII Controller Identifier [DiD] 
    1. Credential ID 
    1. Accountable Person 
    2. Accountable Person role 
    1. Controller Notice Record Identifier 
    1. As a DiD: Verified Credential  
  1. Controller Type[Ctype]:  
    1. Notice Controller,  
    2. PII notice controller,  
    3. PII controller,    
    4. PII surveillance controller , (info not provided by PII Principle) 
    5. [Ctype] controller operator, 
  2. Accountable Person Type

Assessment

ANCR Record provides a PII Controller Digital privacy transparency KPI, be assessing a notice for digital and physical controller identification and privacy access information, as required for the operational use and management of digital identifiers. 

The Controller Credential assessment tests this credential for its transparency performance. 

Security Considerations

The use of blinding identity taxonomy for personal identifiers includes the Accountable person identifiers, which are required to be published and available in accordance to local legislation. 

The identifiers used in the controller credential are specified according to regulation and implemented with standards in order to be subject to regulation and regulatory considerations, 

Mitigation Risk

Using standard framework for transparency of control with data control defaults 

 Examples

  1. Security, 


Controller Credential 

Micro-Credential 

defined as a credential specified to a specific purpose. 


Glossary


Privacy Stakeholders - ISO 29100

Privacy Stakeholders

ISO Definition


Regulator / 
Privacy Regulator for individuals 
PII Principal

PII Controller

Joint PII Controller

PII Processor

3rd Party
another person, or police, 


Annex: Privacy Stakeholder Mapping to Functional ToiP Roles

Continuing of the ANCR Record Assessment to identify the controller credential,

Map the ToiP functional role to the legal authority, justification and role of the stakeholder. 

Questions: 

Is the controller the holder, verifier, or issuer? 


ISO Term

TOIP Terms 




Controller Holder, verifier, issuer

    
Principal



Processor


















controller contactextend consent termination for a control point



Delegated Authority Examples :




Delegated 

Regulator

Ombudsman
PII Principal

Guardian/Parent/School
PII Controller

Joint-Controller
PII Processor

Sub-Processor
3rd Party

turtles 

References for Controller Credential, Infrastructure and Legal Framework

Standard/Specifications

Title

Description 

Resource Status

ISO 29100

Information technology — Security techniques — Privacy framework

ISO/IEC 29100:2011 provides a privacy framework which

  • specifies a common privacy terminology;
  • defines the actors and their roles in processing personally identifiable information (PII);
  • describes privacy safeguarding considerations; and
  • provides references to known privacy principles for information technology.
Status - Is publicly available - https://www.freestandardsdownload.com/iso-iec-29100-2011.html
ISO/IEC 29184:2020Online privacy notice and consent
(just published - not available to public - we are working on publishing a report/appendix for use with this group )
W3C DPV  0.01Data Privacy Vocabulary
  • legal ontology for technically breaking down and mapping legal ontology to a data legal ontology - 
  • the Notice +  CR V1.2 and W3C DPV, also use a common set of purpose categories. and the Kantara CR v1.1 for purpose specification
  • (note shared by initial FIHR approach - now much more evolved) 

Reference: OPN: Open Notice  (+ Consent) Receipt Schema: Starters Guide to Unified Data Control Schema

Lizar, M. & Pandit, H.J., OPN: Open Notice Receipt Schema, 14th International Conference on Semantic Systems (SEMANTiCS 2019), Karlsruhe, Germany, 2019 [Published http://www.tara.tcd.ie/handle/2262/91576 [accessed July 1, 2020]


Field Name

Field Label

Format

Description 

Required/Optional

Schema Version

version

string

The version of specification used to which the receipt conforms. To refer to this version of the specification, the string "v1" or the IRI "https://w3id.org/OPN/v1" should be used.

Required

Notice Profile URI

profile

string

Link to the controller's profile in the OPN registry. 

Required

Type of Notice Receipt

Notice Receipt

string 

Label Notice Receipt 

Required

Receipt ID

id

string

A unique number for each Notice Receipt. SHOULD use UUID-4 [RFC 4122].

Required

Timestamp

timestamp

integer

Date and time of when the notice was generated and provided. The JSON value MUST be expressed as the number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 GMT (Unix epoch).

Required

Signing Key

key

string

The Controller’s profile public key. Used to sign notice icons, receipts and policies for higher assurance.

Optional

Language

language

string

Language in which the consent was obtained. MUST use ISO 639-1:2002 [ISO 639] if this field is used. Default is 'EN'.

Optional

Controller Identity

controllerID

string

The identity (legal name) of the controller.

Required

Legal Jurisdiction

jurisdiction

string

The jurisdiction(s) applicable to this notice

Required

Controller Contact

controllerContact

string

Contact name of the Controller. Contact could be a telephone number or an email address or a twitter handle.

Required

Link to Notice

notice

string

Link to the notice the receipt is for 

Optional

Link to Policy

policy

string

Link to the policies relevant to this notice e.g. privacy policy active at the time notice was provided

Required

Context

context

string

Method of notice  presentation, sign, website pop-up etc

Optional

Receipt Type

The human understandable label for a record or receipt for data processing.  This is used to extend the schema with  profile for the type of legal processing - and is Used to identify data privacy rights and controls 

OCA schema specification: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KOdq8Yy3OXmuELyh7tpHMlhyMZPSZ3Ib/edit#gid=68769926