Glossary
Consent Receipt
A consent receipt is a durable record — timestamped, tied to exactly what was disclosed and agreed to — that a specific consent was actually given, distinct from a simple checkbox state stored in a database that a later dispute has no independent way to verify. A database flag saying 'consented: true' proves nothing on its own about what the person actually saw or agreed to at the time; a proper receipt captures the specifics of what was presented and agreed to, not just the fact that some agreement occurred.
This matters most when a consent decision is later disputed — a person claims they never agreed to something the system says they did. A mutable database record settles nothing in that dispute, since the same system that recorded the consent could, in principle, have recorded it incorrectly or had it altered afterward; an independently verifiable receipt is what actually resolves the question.