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Consent Management

What is Consent Management?

Systems and processes for obtaining, recording, and managing user consent for the collection, processing, and sharing of personal data in compliance with privacy laws.

Privacy and Data Protection

Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as consent management. The number is how many controls name both.

What the standards actually require on consent management

Requirements naming consent management across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.

Consent Architecture is the core distinguishing element of the RBI AA Framework - all financial data sharing between FIPs and FIUs requires explicit + revocable + auditable customer consent mediated through the Account Aggregator.

RBI-AA-ConsentArchitecture-ConsentArtefact-ExplicitConsent-PurposeLimitation-CustomerDashboard-ORS-CMP · RBI AA Consent Architecture - Consent Artefact + Explicit Customer Consent + Purpose Limitation + Customer Consent Dashboard + Online Revocation Service + Consent Management Provider

Per OBS: consent management + data sharing scopes + 90-day reauthentication + user revocation.

UKOBS-3 · Consent Management and Data Sharing
Bahrain PDPL1 control

Consent management and withdrawal. Control from Bahrain PDPL framework, domain: Bahrain PDPL: Data Collection & Consent.

BH-PDPL-02 · Consent management and withdrawal

Consent management covers consent gathering (granular, specific, informed, unambiguous, freely given, easy to withdraw) and consent management systems that persist, propagate and demonstrate consent across services in line with GDPR Article 7.

ENISA-DPE-6.6 · Consent management (gathering and systems)

Implement customer consent capture per Operational Guidelines Section 3 with informed + specific + freely given + revocable consent + clear data scope + retention + sharing partners + purpose. Maintain consent records for audit and replay.

NGOB-2 · Customer Consent Management and Lifecycle

Consent management and withdrawal. Control from Saudi Arabia PDPL framework, domain: Saudi Arabia PDPL: Data Collection & Consent.

SA-PDPL-02 · Consent management and withdrawal

Questions people ask about consent management

What is Consent Management?
Systems and processes for obtaining, recording, and managing user consent for the collection, processing, and sharing of personal data in compliance with privacy laws.
Why is Consent Management important for compliance?
Consent Management is a key concept in Privacy and Data Protection. Understanding consent management helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Consent Management?
Consent Management appears in the requirement text of India Account Aggregator Framework (RBI), UK Open Banking Standard, Bahrain PDPL, ENISA Data Protection Engineering - From Theory to Practice, Nigeria Open Banking Regulatory Framework (CBN, 2023). Across these standards we have identified 8 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Consent Management?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how consent management applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 686 frameworks.

See how Consent Management applies across compliance frameworks

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Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.