From Clicks to Consensus: Collective Consent Assemblies for Data Governance
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| author | Kyi, Lin Gölz, Paul Berjon, Robin Biega, Asia |
| author_facet | Kyi, Lin Gölz, Paul Berjon, Robin Biega, Asia |
| contents | Obtaining meaningful and informed consent from users is essential for ensuring autonomy and control over one's data. Notice and consent, the standard for collecting consent, has been criticized. While other individualized solutions have been proposed, this paper argues that a collective approach to consent is worth exploring. First, individual consent is not always feasible to collect for all data collection scenarios. Second, harms resulting from data processing are often communal in nature, given the interconnected nature of some data. Finally, ensuring truly informed consent for every individual has proven impractical.
We propose collective consent, operationalized through consent assemblies, as one alternative framework. We establish collective consent's theoretical foundations and use speculative design to envision consent assemblies leveraging deliberative mini-publics. We present two vignettes: i) replacing notice and consent, and ii) collecting consent for GenAI model training. Our paper employs future backcasting to identify the requirements for realizing collective consent and explores its potential applications in contexts where individual consent is infeasible. |
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| spellingShingle | From Clicks to Consensus: Collective Consent Assemblies for Data Governance Kyi, Lin Gölz, Paul Berjon, Robin Biega, Asia Human-Computer Interaction Computers and Society Obtaining meaningful and informed consent from users is essential for ensuring autonomy and control over one's data. Notice and consent, the standard for collecting consent, has been criticized. While other individualized solutions have been proposed, this paper argues that a collective approach to consent is worth exploring. First, individual consent is not always feasible to collect for all data collection scenarios. Second, harms resulting from data processing are often communal in nature, given the interconnected nature of some data. Finally, ensuring truly informed consent for every individual has proven impractical. We propose collective consent, operationalized through consent assemblies, as one alternative framework. We establish collective consent's theoretical foundations and use speculative design to envision consent assemblies leveraging deliberative mini-publics. We present two vignettes: i) replacing notice and consent, and ii) collecting consent for GenAI model training. Our paper employs future backcasting to identify the requirements for realizing collective consent and explores its potential applications in contexts where individual consent is infeasible. |
| title | From Clicks to Consensus: Collective Consent Assemblies for Data Governance |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction Computers and Society |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16752 |