{
  "id": "CON-PAPER-ELEMENTS",
  "slug": "con-paper-elements",
  "title": "Paper consent form must carry the disclosure, a tick box, and a signature line",
  "statement": "The form must show the full consent disclosure, a messaging tick box separable from the phone field, and a signature and date.",
  "rationale": "A phone-number line on an intake form is contact information, not consent to be marketed to. The separable tick box is what turns a form someone filled in for another purpose into an auditable messaging opt-in, and the signature and date are what let you evidence when it happened.",
  "layer": "CONSENT_FLOW",
  "layerSlug": "consent-flow",
  "object": "paper consent form",
  "severity": "BLOCKING",
  "detectability": [
    "VISION"
  ],
  "failureClass": "TERMINAL_ARTIFACT",
  "artifact": "paper_consent_form",
  "authorities": [
    "TCR",
    "CTIA",
    "FCC"
  ],
  "applicability": {
    "consentMethods": [
      "paper",
      "employer_hr"
    ]
  },
  "applicabilityText": "Applies when consent was collected by paper form and employer / HR.",
  "universal": false,
  "remediation": "Redesign the form so SMS consent is its own tick box with the full disclosure printed beside it, positioned so a customer can give a phone number without ticking it, plus a signature and date line.",
  "notes": "whenUnreadable is FAIL, against the default. A paper form is evidence the brand chose to submit; if we cannot read the tick box or the disclosure, neither can a reviewer holding the same scan, so an unreadable form fails the same way an absent one does. The user must re-scan it themselves — flatbed or a document-scanner app, not a photograph of a page at an angle.",
  "catalogIds": [
    "CON-153"
  ],
  "phase": "approval",
  "automated": true,
  "url": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/consent-flow/con-paper-elements/",
  "markdown": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/consent-flow/con-paper-elements.md",
  "registry": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/",
  "updated": "2026-07-25",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}