Patent ID: 8015118

Claim:
A method of validating the use of biometric data as legal consent in a transaction, the method comprising: receiving, by an authorization system device, a consent form in electronic format, the consent form including a user signature, wherein the user signature provides validation to utilize the user biometric data as legal consent for a transaction; receiving, at the authorization system device, user biometric data; storing, via a processing device operably connected to the authorization system device, said consent form in electronic form in association with a user record in an authorization system; storing, by the processing device on a computer readable medium operably connected to the processing device and the authorization system device, the user biometric data in association with the user record; receiving, by the authorization system device, biometric data from said user as an indication of consent to a proposed transaction presented to said user by an operator of the authorization system; receiving a request from said operator for secondary user consent to said proposed transaction; and granting access to the operator by an authorization system device to the stored consent form associated with said user record, wherein the user signature included with the consent form constitutes secondary user consent to the proposed transaction.