Authorized Agent Agreements

Employees are consumers, too!

Yo-ai's Privacy Preferences enable you to control who your identity and personal information is shared with.

By setting your own policy and seeing your personal Data Steward implement it, you'll find out how Yo-ai works for all registered stakeholders.

When a consumer uses Yo-ai to generate requests, create online accounts, or initiate transactions or agreements with your organization, these activities are legally authorized by the consumer.

Likewise, when a consumer uses Yo-ai to monitor and/or verify an organization's activities or change in its profile, the consumer is exercising their right to know if promises the organization makes are kept.

Organizations, and its employees or representatives -- which includes AI Agents, are also able to correct information or register concerns with the Vendor-Manager agent Yo-ai assigns to represent you as an organization.

Let's use this as an example:
You are the Privacy Officer or General Counsel who represents an organization we'll call ZYX Corporation.
You subscribe and pay for the Authorized Agent Agreement subscription as an individual Consumer, just like everyone else.
Now we can verify your identity, but we cannot verify if you are authorized to represent ZYX Corporation.
We need an affidavit signed by another corporate officer, or a registered agent declaration filed with the State where ZYX is incorporated.
Now, you have the necessary credentials to modify the Organization's Profile, via the Vendor-Manager agent. (We won't ask you for a copy of your Driver's License.)
All Registered Stakeholders who subscribe to ZYX Corporation's profile updates, will see that an authorized company officer has modified the profile. They will not be able to learn from Yo-ai who that person is, including their job title. They have a job to do, that doesn't include personal invasions of their privacy.

The purpose of a Registered Stakeholder modifying the profile of the Organization they represent, is to enable them to view their organizations' impact on consumers and take remedial action as they see fit, which includes countering misinformation.

Anyone who works for a regulatory agency may also register as a stakeholder, Authorized Agent Agreement subscriber, or licensed Platform User. Like the example provided above for consumers who represent organizations, staff members are also employees/consumers.

Government agency employees typically have strict prohibitions on accessing personal information and engaging with individuals and entities, and legal matters that could potentially create conflicts-of-interest. They could access organization profiles (which includes references to all complaints) that are published in Yo-ai's public data catalog without being registered as a stakeholder. They could subscribe to specific organizations or topics as a Registered Stakeholder, that they might also have an interest in as an agency employee.

We're not encouraging employees of regulatory agencies or organizations to circumvent systems and processes. If agencies have the appropriate jurisdiction, they have subpoena power, they can conduct investigations and audits, and their access to information dwarfs anything discovered on the Yo-ai Platform.

As a transparent zero-trust assurance platform, Yo-ai is "audit ready" 24x7. Regulators may want to know if the information disseminated by the Yo-ai Platform is timely and accurate. They might wonder if PrivacyPortfolio is engaged in non-compliant or illegal activity. They might be curious as to how their performance as an enforcement activity compares with complaint-management and remediations initiated by Registered Stakeholders on Yo-ai.

PrivacyPortfolio will disclose (via The Sentinel in Yo-ai) access requests received from law enforcement or other regualtory agencies to the degree that we are able to do so without breaking the law.