The need for enhanced privacy and consent dialogues

  • Authors:
  • Danijela Bogdanovic;Conn Crawford;Lizzie Coles-Kemp

  • Affiliations:
  • Salford University, United Kingdom;Sunderland City Council, United Kingdom;Information Security Group, Royal Holloway, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Information Security Tech. Report
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The aim of this article is to present the case for a closer examination of the privacy and consent dialogues that take place during the use of on-line services. This article explores the concepts of privacy and consent in on-line services, discusses the facets of both concepts and presents a case study from Sunderland City Council to illustrate the complexity of deploying privacy and consent dialogue within on-line services. The article concludes with an outline of how enhanced understanding of privacy and consent concepts can result in improved tools to support dialogue and result in a negotiated understanding of the privacy that can be expected and the consent that it is required. This rationale is the underpinning of the VOME project - Visualisation and Other Methods of Expression - funded by TSB, EPSRC and ESRC.