COEL Specification: a privacy-by-design framework for the collection and processing of behavioural data

"We are pleased to announce that the Classification of Everyday Living Version 1.0 from the OASIS COEL TC was approved as an OASIS Committee Specification on 25th February 2018.
Digital technologies are becoming integral to our daily lives. They promise huge benefits to society, but the resulting data creates many challenges for an individual's privacy.
The COEL Specification provides a privacy-by-design framework for the collection and processing of behavioural data. It is uniquely suited to the transparent use of dynamic data for personalised digital services, IoT applications where devices are collecting information about identifiable individuals and the coding of behavioural data in identity solutions."


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0. A wide range of different services and processes can qualify as implementations of the COEL Specification. Examples include, but are not limited to:
   
• A Data Engine could use the COEL Specification to structure and manage the dynamic personal data it is set up to receive and process;
  
• A Personal Data Store could use the COEL Specification to structure the dynamic personal data it is designed to manage;
  
• A Personal Electronic Device could use the COEL Specification to communicate the personal event data that it can output;
  
• An Internet of Things (IoT) Device which interacts with identifiable individuals could use the COEL Specification to communicate the personal event data that it can output;
  
• An Identity Authority could use the COEL Specification to deliver and check unique pseudonymised keys;
  
• A Data Portability Exchange could use the COEL Specification to translate personal data stored in another format into compliant Behavioural Atom data;
  
• A User Interface could use the COEL Specification to code and interpret interactions with an individual;
  
• A Customer Relationship Manager (CRM) could use the COEL Specification to code, store and analyse interactions with an individual.