Evidence-based transparency for the AI era.
Privacy policies are not transparency. Transparency Lab builds the standards, audits, and infrastructure that make data governance inspectable and enforceable. Two ways in: practise it live at the Summer Sessions, or certify in it through the DTTC Academy.
Next: Trust & Participation Lab, Scoping Session · Tue 30 June · CSI Toronto · Register $25 →
The same Trustparency runs through everything we do. You can step into it two ways, and they connect. The Summer Sessions are the accessible on-ramp; the Academy is where you earn the credential.
Live, applied, in Toronto · CSI · with Stephen Sillett
Small, hands-on sessions where you work the live transparency stack yourself. Community-priced, evidence-generating, the source of the data we carry to the Council of Europe in September.
DTTC Academy · professionals · year-round
A professional certification pathway for privacy and transparency professionals. From Foundation to Digital Privacy Officer, each credential builds on the last, tied to the live standards and the running implementation.
The on-ramp · how the doors connect
Try the practice at community price; walk up the tiers when you want the certification. Summer builds community and the September evidence base; the Academy is the professional credential.
Claimed transparency is worthless. Evidence-based, inspectable transparency is the only kind that supports trust or enforcement.
The world needs a visible signal for data, the way a sign on the land tells you where you stand. The analogy is the Forest Charter: a public, legible mark that told you the boundary of what was private.
What we call Trustparency is that signal for digital systems. Not a privacy policy. Not a checkbox. A machine-readable, independently verifiable record that a notice was issued, at this version, at this time, and that the data was collected under a declared legal basis.
The difference between clean AI and dirty AI is whether that record exists.
A live practice space for transparency & consent standards, at the Centre for Social Innovation.
It starts with one conversation. The Scoping Session on Tuesday 30 June opens a Trust & Participation Lab and shapes what the summer becomes, you are a co-researcher helping design it, not an attendee. Everything below the scoping session is a tentative plan we decide together in the room.
Where this is heading, a tentative plan. The shape below is the likely direction, refined together at the scoping session. Format and prices are indicative until we scope them with you.
What is the difference between AI with consent lineage and AI without, and why does it matter for everyone in the room? Half structured framework, half facilitated discussion. Each participant brings a real example.
→ Free preview of Tier 1: FoundationThe transparency signal runs live: a notice is issued, a receipt is downloadable, rights are visible. We invite a wider group to react. The difference between claimed and evidence-based transparency, made tangible.
→ Where the public meets the proofScholarship and sliding scale available for every session, email us. Your registration contributes directly to applied standards development.
The certification destination. A professional pathway for privacy and transparency practitioners, sold to organisations and individuals who need the credential, tied to the live standards and the running reference implementation.
Courses run year-round, independent of the summer programme. New to the work? Start at a Summer Session, then walk up the tiers when you want the credential.
The transparency and consent standard at the heart of this work has been in development for roughly twenty years, through ISO/IEC processes, Council of Europe liaison roles, and interoperability standards bodies.
These standards are not separate. They are layers of one Internet Transparency Stack, from OECD principles and Convention 108+ through ISO/IEC TS 27560 to the Council of Europe Code of Practice. Each layer makes the one above it inspectable rather than asserted. Read the stack → · The short version → · CPDP 108+ panel →
This is not theoretical. CAN/DGSI 133, Canada's national consent standard, references ISO/IEC 29184 and ISO/IEC TS 27560 and is built to work hand-in-hand with them, the same layers at the heart of this work.
Consent record standard. The technical anchor for machine-readable notice and consent.
Proposed ISO/IEC standard for digital transparency and the Universal Notice Receipt Protocol. In active development through SC 27 WG5.
Liaison contributor on digital transparency and AI governance. Next presentation: June 2026 plenary.
Standards work by Transparency Lab
The standards work, in the open: research and writing on transparency, consent, and AI governance, pulled live from our journal.
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For organisations that need to demonstrate accountability, not just claim it. Consulting, standards contribution, and applied training, tied to live standards.
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