Consent Management in Digital Public Infrastructures

Our work is aimed at resolving consent for open-ended data sharing in Digital Public Infrastructures (DPIs). In this regard, Government of India introduced a consent management framework under Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture (DEPA) as shown in the diagram below. 

Source – DEPA 2020, https://www.niti.gov.in/sites/default/files/2023-03/Data-Empowerment-and-Protection-Architecture-A-Secure-Consent-Based.pdf

The DEPA model obtains consent from an individual explicitly. But in the case of DPIs data may be shared by individuals/organisations in an open-ended manner. Such explicit consent request and choice may not suffice here. We propose policy-based consent as an alternative  to this wherein consensual data sharing is driven by user/organisation policy.  

Through our work we make the following contributions : 

1. A mechanism to share data accounting for 4 dimensions of consent – ownership, policy/regulatory compliance, access control and post-access conditions.  
2. A consent management approach with principles of meaningful consent embedded in it. 
3. A mechanism to evaluate policies 

Funding Agency

Centre of Data for Public Good (CDPG), IISc

Website

https://anumati.iiitb.ac.in

Publications

1. Ayappane, Balambiga, et al. “Extensible Consent Management Architectures for Data Trusts.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.16789 (2023).
2. Balambiga Ayappane, Rohith Vaidyanathan, Srinath Srinivasa, Santosh Kumar Upadhyaya, and Srinivas Vivek. 2024. Consent Service Architecture for Policy-Based Consent Management in Data Trusts. In 7th Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data (11th ACM IKDD CODS and 29th COMAD) (CODS-COMAD 2024), January 04–07, 2024, Bangalore, India. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 9 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3632410

Team Details

1. Dev Shinde (MS Scholar)
2. Balambiga Ayappane (Research Associate) 
3. Rohith Vaidyanathan (MS scholar) 
4. Prof. V Sridhar (collaborator) 
5. Asilata Karandikar (collaborating PhD Scholar) 
6. Prof. Srinivas Vivek (collaborator) 
7. Santosh Kumar Upadhyaya (collaborating PhD scholar)
8. Prof. Srinath Srinivasa (PI)