Data protection is nowadays of immense importance considering the fact that more than 250 million... more Data protection is nowadays of immense importance considering the fact that more than 250 million people in the European Union alone make use of the internet daily, such as using it to deal with online transaction whilst shopping, online banking, using social media or any other form. This results in boundless amounts of data being exchanged every day between different public and private actors, be it for benevolent purposes or not. For this to occur, however, these bodies need to acquire the consent of the individual (data subject) whereby the latter has to give it in a freely, specific, informed and unambiguous form. Not only are these criteria not fully fulfilled after the adoption of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), but having created a connection between autonomy and consent, it seems that they water down the fundamental right of privacy which entails even further complications in the judicial system.
The acquiring of consent demands within itself several implications when it is given to private bodies. Facebook, for instance, uses this data through computational inferences to interpret and predict confidential and private information that, in the long run, goes against the GDPR and also fundamental rights. Such data may infer someone’s sexual orientation, ethnicity, religious and political views, etc. These tools can be utilised for social control, dominance, or even chaos. Moreover, consenting can be linked to nudging. This is a way to influence people’s behaviours by allowing them the freedom to choose between different options. Nudging is a seldom-legislated area in the European Union and it requires different perspectives as to how to tackle public and private bodies interfering with people’s autonomy and manipulating them into desired outcomes.
Consent is not in itself the issue. The instruments exercising it are, because they create a narrow perception of what happens in the world and should be tackled in a behavioural aspect: not assuming how people behave, but by observing how they really behave.
Data protection is nowadays of immense importance considering the fact that more than 250 million... more Data protection is nowadays of immense importance considering the fact that more than 250 million people in the European Union alone make use of the internet daily, such as using it to deal with online transaction whilst shopping, online banking, using social media or any other form. This results in boundless amounts of data being exchanged every day between different public and private actors, be it for benevolent purposes or not. For this to occur, however, these bodies need to acquire the consent of the individual (data subject) whereby the latter has to give it in a freely, specific, informed and unambiguous form. Not only are these criteria not fully fulfilled after the adoption of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), but having created a connection between autonomy and consent, it seems that they water down the fundamental right of privacy which entails even further complications in the judicial system.
The acquiring of consent demands within itself several implications when it is given to private bodies. Facebook, for instance, uses this data through computational inferences to interpret and predict confidential and private information that, in the long run, goes against the GDPR and also fundamental rights. Such data may infer someone’s sexual orientation, ethnicity, religious and political views, etc. These tools can be utilised for social control, dominance, or even chaos. Moreover, consenting can be linked to nudging. This is a way to influence people’s behaviours by allowing them the freedom to choose between different options. Nudging is a seldom-legislated area in the European Union and it requires different perspectives as to how to tackle public and private bodies interfering with people’s autonomy and manipulating them into desired outcomes.
Consent is not in itself the issue. The instruments exercising it are, because they create a narrow perception of what happens in the world and should be tackled in a behavioural aspect: not assuming how people behave, but by observing how they really behave.
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The acquiring of consent demands within itself several implications when it is given to private bodies. Facebook, for instance, uses this data through computational inferences to interpret and predict confidential and private information that, in the long run, goes against the GDPR and also fundamental rights. Such data may infer someone’s sexual orientation, ethnicity, religious and political views, etc. These tools can be utilised for social control, dominance, or even chaos. Moreover, consenting can be linked to nudging. This is a way to influence people’s behaviours by allowing them the freedom to choose between different options. Nudging is a seldom-legislated area in the European Union and it requires different perspectives as to how to tackle public and private bodies interfering with people’s autonomy and manipulating them into desired outcomes.
Consent is not in itself the issue. The instruments exercising it are, because they create a narrow perception of what happens in the world and should be tackled in a behavioural aspect: not assuming how people behave, but by observing how they really behave.
The acquiring of consent demands within itself several implications when it is given to private bodies. Facebook, for instance, uses this data through computational inferences to interpret and predict confidential and private information that, in the long run, goes against the GDPR and also fundamental rights. Such data may infer someone’s sexual orientation, ethnicity, religious and political views, etc. These tools can be utilised for social control, dominance, or even chaos. Moreover, consenting can be linked to nudging. This is a way to influence people’s behaviours by allowing them the freedom to choose between different options. Nudging is a seldom-legislated area in the European Union and it requires different perspectives as to how to tackle public and private bodies interfering with people’s autonomy and manipulating them into desired outcomes.
Consent is not in itself the issue. The instruments exercising it are, because they create a narrow perception of what happens in the world and should be tackled in a behavioural aspect: not assuming how people behave, but by observing how they really behave.