Should I Agree? : Delegating Consent Decisions Beyond the Individual

Nissen, Bettina and Neumann, Victoria and Mikusz, Mateusz Andrzej and Gianni, Rory and Clinch, Sarah and Speed, Chris and Davies, Nigel Andrew Justin (2019) Should I Agree? : Delegating Consent Decisions Beyond the Individual. In: CHI '19 Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems :. ACM, New York. ISBN 9781450359702

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Abstract

Obtaining meaningful user consent is increasingly problematic in a world of numerous, heterogeneous digital services. Current approaches (e.g. agreeing to Terms and Conditions) are rooted in the idea of individual control despite growing evidence that users do not (or cannot) exercise such control in informed ways. We consider an alternative approach whereby users can opt to delegate consent decisions to an ecosystem of third-parties including friends, experts, groups and AI entities. We present the results of a study that used a technology probe at a large festival to explore initial public responses to this reframing -- focusing on when and to whom users would delegate such decisions. The results reveal substantial public interest in delegating consent and identify differing preferences depending on the privacy context, highlighting the need for alternative decision mechanisms beyond the current focus on individual choice.

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© Author/owner, 2019. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3300745 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3290605.3300745
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18 Feb 2019 09:05
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