Consent

I'm finding myself asking a lot of questions about what people mean by
phrases they use including the word "consent."

May I suggest that we use the following terminology:

Consentual-disclosure: The end-user has chosen to reveal
information. This choice is freely given, not mandated or required.

Mandated-disclosure: There is a legal requirement to reveal
information.

Needed-disclosure: There is a requirement to reveal the
information in order to make the service work. For example, if I call
1-800-find-gas to get the nearest gas station, I may expect that my
location will be transmitted.

Explicit-consent-action: The user performs a GUI action to reveal or
conceal information at the time of the request

Default-conset-action: The user has set a preference for some
recipient, class of recipient, etc.

Adam
Received on Mon Aug 20 14:46:55 2001