User-centric Consent

Full Title or Meme

This page looks at the entire user experience when deciding to go forward with a Web Site.

This is a part of the User Choice Experience which contains information on the Paradox on Choice.

Context

Any site that claims to be human-centric must address the purpose that the user has on the site.

The primary goal is a simple presentation to a human user about the purpose of data sharing and what data will be required, and what will be retained. The purpose encompasses the end goal of data sharing together with both a user understanding of the data shared as well as a list of the data elements needed. The data shared will always include the required data but may also be combined with purposes that are not required to proceed. For example, the purpose can be to allow a medical prescription to be created as a separate purpose to establish an ongoing relationship between the user and the prescribing physician.

When a human user is asked to consent to a transaction their purpose is to achieve some objective. As a part of most digital transactions, the user is asked to share some data with the provider of that service. In very few cases is the user engaged with the provider solely to share data. The data sharing is an artifact of the purpose of the transaction.

References

Other Material

• The wiki page Consent to Create Binding goes into great technical detail on what happens under the covers.