Research project

Meaningful Consent in the Digital Economy

Project overview

Despite being asked to agree constantly to terms of service, we do not currently have meaningful consent. It is unclear whether having simple and meaningful consent mechanisms would change business fundamentally or enhance new kinds of economics around personal data sharing. Since consent is deemed necessary and part of a social contract for fairness, however, without meaningful consent, that social contract is effectively broken and the best intent of our laws undermined. Our research challenges to address this gap are interdisciplinary: meaningful consent has implications for transforming current digital economy data practices; change will require potentially new business models, and certainly new forms of interaction to highlight policy without over burdening citizens as we go about our business. We have set out a vision to achieve an understanding of meaningful consent through a combination of interdisciplinary expert and citizen activities to deliver useful policy, business and technology guidelines.

Staff

Lead researchers

Other researchers

Professor Enrico Gerding

Professor
Research interests
  • artificial intelligence
  • autonomous agents and multi-agent systems
  • algorithmics game theory
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Professor Michael Vlassopoulos

Professor of Economics
Research interests
  • Development Economics
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Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Dorota Filipczuk, Tim Baarslag, Enrico H. Gerding & M. C. Schraefel, 2022, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 36(2)
Type: article
m.c. schraefel, Richard Gomer, Alper Alan, Enrico Gerding & Carsten Maple, 2017, Interactions, 24(6), 26-33
Type: article
Helia Rosa Marreiros, Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos & Monica Schraefel, 2017, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 140, 1-17
Type: article
Tim Baarslag, Michael Kaisers, Enrico Gerding, Catholijn M. Jonker & Jonathan Gratch, 2017
Type: conference
Richard Gomer, m.c. schraefel, Enrico Gerding, Alper Alan & Dorota Filipczuk, 2017
Type: report
Tim Baarslag, Michael Kaisers, Enrico Gerding, Catholijn Jonker & Jonathan Gratch, 2017
Type: bookChapter