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Role of Identity, Identification, and Receipts for Consent

  • Harshvardhan J. Pandit
  • , Vitor Jesus
  • , Shankar Ammai
  • , Mark Lizar
  • , Salvatore D'Agostino
  • Trinity College Dublin
  • Birmingham City University
  • Open Consent

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Abstract

This article outlines issues in the current ecosystem of data sharing based on consent and the role of identity and identification. It argues how the consent mechanism is hostile to individuals in the form of: (a) inscrutable third parties who remain largely unknown; (b) denying ability to identify and manage consent; and (c) lack of technological solution. The article discusses the role and feasibility of Consent Receipts, and presents its role in the Privacy as Expected: Consent Gateway (PaE:CG) project for the future of accountable identity and identification mechanisms for consent.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationOpen Identity Summit 2021 - Proceedings
EditorsHeiko Rossnagel, Christian Schunck, Sebastian Modersheim
PublisherGesellschaft fur Informatik (GI)
Pages211-216
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9783885797067
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
EventOpen Identity Summit 2021 - Copenhagen, Denmark
Duration: 1 Jun 20212 Jun 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Proceedings - Series of the Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI)
VolumeP-312
ISSN (Print)1617-5468

Conference

ConferenceOpen Identity Summit 2021
Country/TerritoryDenmark
CityCopenhagen
Period1/06/212/06/21

Funding

PaE:CG is funded under the EU H2020 Next Generation Internet’s (NGI) TRUST project funding programme which promotes development of innovative solutions for management of consent by utilising privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) such as cryptography and federated identity. The driving principle for PaE:CG is utilising receipts for an accountable mechanism while ensuring the Internet as it currently is and should remain for the most part a pseudo-anonymous space, while still empowering individuals with choice and control through consent. PaE:CG thus extends the existing paradigms of Consent Receipt, cryptographic identity and verification, and online identities to defining specifications and create implementations for information structures and processes across three levels: (i) service provider; (ii) end-user; and (iii) a notary or witness - a radical new concept introduced by the project to counter non-participation by some entities within the consent transaction. The project rationale and objectives can be explored in more detail via its website https://privacy-as-expected.org/. Funding Acknolwedgements: This work has been funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme NGI TRUST Grant#825618 for Project#3.40 Privacy-as-Expected: Consent Gateway. Harshvardhan J. Pandit is also funded by Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant#GOIPD/2020/790; and ADAPT SFI Centre for Digital Media Technology funded by Science Foundation Ireland through SFI Research Centres Programme and co-funded under European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through Grant#13/RC/2106_P2. This work has been funded under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme NGI TRUST Grant#825618 for Project#3.40 Privacy-as-Expected: Consent Gateway. Harshvardhan J. Pandit is also funded by Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant#GOIPD/2020/790; and ADAPT SFI Centre for Digital Media Technology funded by Science Foundation Ireland through SFI Research Centres Programme and co-funded under European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through Grant#13/RC/2106_P2.

Keywords

  • Accountability
  • Consent
  • GDPR
  • Identification
  • Identity

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