The Data protection Code of Conducts enables safe attribute release between Identity and Service Providers within EU.
The Data protection Code of Conduct describes an approach to meet the requirements of the EU Data Protection Directive in federated identity management. The Data protection Code of Conduct defines behavioral rules for Service Providers which want to receive user attributes from the Identity Providers managed by the Home Organisations. It is expected that Home Organisations are more willing to release attributes to Service Providers who manifest conformance to the Data protection Code of Conduct.
(The Code of Conduct and all related documents in the REFEDs wiki are available under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license.)
Data Protection Code of Conduct (CoCo)
To support the adoption of the Code of Conduct, an Endorsement letter was signed by the following international research communities: