Glossary
Consent chain
The documented trail proving every participant granted the rights you need.
Short answer
A consent chain is the documented trail proving that every person in a dataset granted the rights the buyer needs, before capture. It links each episode to a signed release and records the legal basis, so the license you receive is backed by artefacts, not assurances.
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Why it matters
Training data with murky consent is a legal and reputational liability that surfaces after deployment. A verifiable consent chain is what lets a commercial team actually ship a model trained on human demonstration data.
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How Firsthand handles it
Every Firsthand contributor signs a written release granting commercial training rights before capture, and each batch ships with the consent artefacts and a data card listing jurisdictions of capture.
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Frequently asked questions
- What is the difference between a consent chain and a data license?
- A consent chain documents that the people appearing in the footage agreed to be recorded and to the intended use. A data license is the separate legal grant defining what a buyer can do with the resulting dataset. See consent requirements for AI training data for the full breakdown.
- How does a consent chain fit into dataset provenance?
- Consent is one link in the provenance chain. Provenance also covers the capture site, jurisdiction, and license terms — see dataset provenance explained for the full picture.