Using the Consent Management REST APIs

The consent management APIs in WSO2 Identity Server collect and manage end user consents when user information is shared with external parties. The following sections guide you through the consent management concepts and the APIs you can invoke.

Definitions for consent management

This section defines and explains commonly used terms in consent management.

Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
Any information that can be used to identify the PII Principal to whom the information relates to.

PII Principal
The natural person to whom the personally identifiable information (PII) relates to.

Consent
A Personally identifiable information (PII) Principal’s freely given, specific and informed agreement to the processing of their PII.

Purpose
The business, operational or regulatory requirement for the collection, use and/or disclosure of a PII Principal's data. In other words, it is the reason personal information is collected by the entity.

Consent Receipt
A record of a consent interaction (or consent record summary linked to the record of consent) provided by a PII Principal to a PII Controller to collect, use and disclose the PII Principal’s PII in accordance to an agreed set of terms.

PII Controller
A private stakeholder that determines the purposes and means for processing personally identifiable information (PII) other than the natural persons who use data for personal purposes.
For information on configuring the PII controller, see Configuring the PII controller.

PII Processor
A private stakeholder that processes personally identifiable information (PII) on behalf of and in accordance with the instructions of a PII controller.

For more information about consent management concepts and the use cases of consent management with WSO2 IS, see Consent Management Overview.

Configuring the PII controller

You can configure a default PII controller in one of the following ways:

Via the management console
Via the configuration file

Via the management console

Login to the management console.
Click Resident under Identity Providers and expand the Consent Management tab.
Configure the PII controller information.

Via the configuration file

Open the consent-mgt-config.xml file found in the <IS_HOME>/repository/conf folder and configure the following configuration block.

<PIIController>    
    <PiiController>Kim</PiiController>
    <Contact>Kim</Contact>
    <Email>kim@abc.com</Email>
    <Phone>+01433444333</Phone>
    <OnBehalf>false</OnBehalf>
    <PiiControllerUrl>https://sample.piicontroller.url</PiiControllerUrl>
    <Address>
        <Country>USA</Country>
        <Locality>Mountain View</Locality>
        <Region>CA</Region>
        <PostOfficeBoxNumber>233</PostOfficeBoxNumber>
        <PostalCode>94043</PostalCode>
        <StreetAddress>1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy</StreetAddress>
    </Address>
</PIIController>

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Property	Type	Required/Optional	Description
<PIIController>	string	Required	Name of the first PII controller who collects the data.
<Contact>	string	Required	Contact name of the PII controller.
<Email>	string	Required	Contact email address of the PII Controller. The direct email to contact the PII Controller regarding the consent or privacy contract.
<Phone>	string	Required	Contact phone number of the PII Controller. The business phone number to contact the PII Controller regarding the consent.
<OnBehalf>	boolean	Optional	A PII Processor acting on behalf of a PII Controller or PII Processor.
<PiiControllerUrl>	string	Optional	A URL for contacting the PII Controller.
<Address>	object	Required	The physical address of the PII controller.

For more information on how to extend or customize this, see Extension points.

APIs and supported operations

For information on the REST APIs, supported operations and sample requests/responses, see Consent Management APIs Swagger Documentation.

Extension points

You can customize the REST APIs using the following extension points:

PIIController connector extension - A sample implementation that demonstrates registering a PII controller and providing PII controller information for consent receipts.
Interceptor extension - A sample implementation that demonstrates registering a consent management interceptor and intercepting consent management related operations.