Informed Consent
Informed Consent is the study and design of how people establish, exercise, verify, delegate, constrain, revoke and recover control within consent infrastructure.
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Consent Infrastructure
Failures in informed consent can expose people to identity fraud, unauthorised decisions, coerced data use, loss of access, unfair exclusion, surveillance and diminished human agency.
8 canonical Subtopics in this Topic.
Granular Consent
Granular Consent is the study and design of how people establish, exercise, verify, delegate, constrain, revoke and recover control within consent infrastructure.
Dynamic Consent
Dynamic Consent is the study and design of how people establish, exercise, verify, delegate, constrain, revoke and recover control within consent infrastructure.
Revocation and Withdrawal
Revocation and Withdrawal is the study and design of how people establish, exercise, verify, delegate, constrain, revoke and recover control within consent infrastructure.
Consent Receipts
Consent Receipts is the study and design of how people establish, exercise, verify, delegate, constrain, revoke and recover control within consent infrastructure.
Consent Comprehension
Consent Comprehension is the study and design of how people establish, exercise, verify, delegate, constrain, revoke and recover control within consent infrastructure.
Consent for Secondary Use
Consent for Secondary Use is the study and design of how people establish, exercise, verify, delegate, constrain, revoke and recover control within consent infrastructure.
Consent Across Time
Consent Across Time is the study and design of how people establish, exercise, verify, delegate, constrain, revoke and recover control within consent infrastructure.
Stories from Consent Infrastructure
Scenario narratives — not empirical findings.
Informed Consent
Day 19, 16:40. Priya wrote one sentence in the margin of the protocol: “The improvement may not belong to the intervention.” Current digital and institutional systems show material gaps in informed consent, especially wh
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The organisation could reach more people with automation, but Maya worried that reach was becoming a substitute for relationship. Current digital and institutional systems show material gaps in granular consent, especial
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“Tell me what changed,” the interviewer said. Anika paused. “First, tell me what you measured.” Current digital and institutional systems show material gaps in dynamic consent, especially where identity, consent, access
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By the third lesson, Ravi could see which students the new support helped and which students had simply learned to hide their confusion. Current digital and institutional systems show material gaps in revocation and with
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Keiko had already told the story three times before the appointment began. Current digital and institutional systems show material gaps in consent receipts, especially where identity, consent, access or authority is assu
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The briefing room was full, but the first slide contained only one question: who carries the consequence if this fails? Current digital and institutional systems show material gaps in consent comprehension, especially wh
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“It works,” one person said. “For whom, for how long, and compared with what?” Eli replied. Current digital and institutional systems show material gaps in consent for secondary use, especially where identity, consent, a
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“It works,” one person said. “For whom, for how long, and compared with what?” Fatima replied. Current digital and institutional systems show material gaps in consent across time, especially where identity, consent, acce
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