Extended Version of Paper Presented at ICISSP, Porto 20-22 February, 2025 A Value-Driven Approach to the Online Consent Conundrum -- A Study with the UnemployedPaul van Schaik, Karen Renaudhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12244
Extended Version of Paper Presented at ICISSP, Porto 20-22 February, 2025 A Value-Driven Approach to the Online Consent Conundrum -- A Study with the UnemployedOnline services are required to gain informed consent from users to collect, store and analyse their personal data, both intentionally divulged and derived during their use of the service. There are many issues with these forms: they are too long, too complex and demand the user's attention too frequently. Many users consent without reading so do not know what they are agreeing to. As such,granted consent is effectively uninformed. In this paper, we report on two studies we carried out to arriv…