About Global Privacy Rights 

With more than two decades of pioneering work in digital identity, privacy, and surveillance transparency, Mark has shaped the global landscape of digital trust, from co-inventing critical technologies like the notice and consent receipt to representing Canada in international standards for privacy and transparency. His groundbreaking contributions, including the creation of Decentralised Data Governance and leadership in international transparency standards at the ISO/IEC level, make him a leading figure in the advancement of privacy rights and digital trust frameworks.

Mark is a Postgraduate with an MSc in Social Research Methods and holds degrees in Law, Sociology/Anthropology, and Criminal Justice Policy. He began working in the digital identity industry in 1998, starting at Entrust and CryptoCard. Throughout his career, Mark has been a pioneer in fields such as surveillance transparency, digital privacy, and digital consent. He is the inventor of Decentralised Data Governance and has made significant contributions to the security and privacy sectors with Global Privacy Rights, which continues to innovate in areas such as consent in surveillance.

In 2005, he established the first industry workgroup focused on identification trust @ Identity Commons and has been instrumental in the development of digital identity and trust registries. His work includes inventing the notice and consent receipt and co-inventing the data commons knowledge-banking security architecture. As a long-standing figure in transparency technologies, Mark has served as the specifications editor for the ANCR WG at the Kantara Initiative since 2014. His leadership has culminated in the specification of the Minimum Viable Consent Receipt, published in 2003 through ISO/IEC 27560, work that Global Privacy Rights is now working to update to a global transparency security standard called the Notice and Consent receipt information structure.

Through these efforts, Mark has become a representative of Canada at ISO/IEC JTC 1 WG 5 privacy and a leading voice in digital identity, security, privacy and surveillance industries, contributing to the international standardisation of transparency to scale digital trust throughout the Commonwealth.

Paul is the inventor of 'Decentralised Semantics' and co-founder of the Human Colossus Foundation, where he serves as Chair of the Decentralised Semantics Working Group. With over 25 years of experience in pharmaceutical biometrics at companies such as Roche, Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, Amgen, and Pfizer, he has become a leading figure in developing decentralised data infrastructures.

His contributions include the Overlays Capture Architecture (OCA), a framework for semantic interoperability, and he holds advisory roles at Secours.ai and OPN Governance Architecture. Working in the Transparency Lab, Paul pioneers next-generation data controls Standards Engineering at Global Privacy Rights. He is a published author on self-sovereign identity and decentralised semantics, with papers focusing on distributed health data ecosystems and harmonising quantitative medical data.

With 20 years experience in media and technology, he has designed and managed globally distributed teams through secure online collaboration to produce innovative Media.

Worked in teams producing campaigns for international brands for global distribution. Performed at all levels in media production from creative conception to epic scale real world live delivery. A passion for engaging, accurate and understandable storytelling for the modern age.

Paul is the inventor of 'Decentralised Semantics' and co-founder of the Human Colossus Foundation, where he serves as Chair of the Decentralised Semantics Working Group. With over 25 years of experience in pharmaceutical biometrics at companies such as Roche, Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, Amgen, and Pfizer, he has become a leading figure in developing decentralised data infrastructures.

His contributions include the Overlays Capture Architecture (OCA), a framework for semantic interoperability, and he holds advisory roles at Secours.ai and OPN Governance Architecture. Working in the Transparency Lab, Paul pioneers next-generation data controls Standards Engineering at Global Privacy Rights. He is a published author on self-sovereign identity and decentralised semantics, with papers focusing on distributed health data ecosystems and harmonising quantitative medical data.