Consent Community Group Launched

With your support, the Consent Community Group has been launched:
  http://www.w3.org/community/consent/

This group was originally proposed on 2020-11-12
by Soheil Human. The following people supported its
creation: 
      Soheil Human
      Mandan Kazzazi
      Hartmut Richard Glaser
      Harshvardhan J. Pandit
      Beatriz Esteves
  
To join the group, please use:
 http://www.w3.org/community/consent/join

Please note that supporting a group is different from joining
a group. Supporters must also enroll if they wish to participate.

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The concept of consent plays an essential role in the use of digital
technologies as an enabler of the individual’s ownership, control, and
agency. Regulations such as the GDPR assert this relationship by
permitting use of consent as one of the possible legal bases for the
lawful practice of data processing. Through this, obtaining consent is
widely practised in the digital world, and can be perceived as an
essential means to enable the individual’s agency regarding the
management and ownership of their personal data. While different legal
frameworks specify various requirements and obligations regarding the
legal validity of consent, which should be, e.g. valid, freely given,
specific, informed and active; existing and ongoing research shows that
the majority of people are not empowered to practice their digital right
to privacy and lawful "consenting" due to various malpractices and a
lack of technological means acting in the individuals' interest.
 
This group aims to contribute towards the empowerment of humans
concerning their rights of privacy and agency, by advocating
interdisciplinary, pluralist, human-centric approaches to digital
consent that are technologically and legally enforceable.
 
The mission of this group is to improve the experience of digital
"consenting" while ensuring it remains adherent to relevant standards
and laws. For this, the group will: (i) provide a space for people and
stakeholders to come together (ii) highlight and analyse concepts,
issues and problems about digital consenting (iii) propose and develop
solutions. Some concrete areas for the working of this group are: (a)
developing interdisciplinary solutions; (b) documenting and achieving
legal compliance; (c) improving the user experience; and (d) utilising
existing and developing new concepts and standards for digital consent. 
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Thank you,

W3C Community Development Team

Received on Thursday, 12 November 2020 15:23:58 UTC