# consent-management

Source: https://startwithidentity.com/glossary/consent-management/
Last updated: 2026-08-29
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Capturing, storing, and honoring user consent for data processing and communications, often to satisfy GDPR and similar laws. Central to customer identity and preference centers.

Consent is a data problem disguised as a UI problem. The regulator's question is not whether a checkbox existed but whether you can produce, for a given user and a given moment, what they were shown and what they agreed to. That means versioned consent records tied to policy text, not a boolean column. Under eIDAS 2.0 the wallet model pushes consent further toward the holder, so verifiers request specific attributes rather than receiving a profile.

See also: [GDPR](https://startwithidentity.com/glossary/gdpr/), [what is CIAM](https://startwithidentity.com/guides/fundamentals/what-is-ciam/), [selective disclosure](https://startwithidentity.com/glossary/selective-disclosure/), [identity regulations by country](https://startwithidentity.com/regulations/)