This project is sponsored by Stanford University’s McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society Ethics + Tech Practitioner Fellowship Program. 

We kick-started a dialogue on technology consent frameworks based on human values  and expectations rather than on non-negotiable informational terms.

We aim to develop consent principles and frameworks and controls for industry and tools and resources for individuals/communities to be able to better advocate for their agency and control in human-technical interactions.

Our goal is to explore alternative ways to think about human values and expectations within human-technical transactions and to develop alternatives ways of designing consent into tech that prioritize the human(s) engaged in such transactions. 

To do this, we:

• conducted a comprehensive literature review of existing consent theory, applications, limitations and considerations within the digital space.

• We then developed a series of questions related to values and technology which we gathered input on from individuals.

• We applied this insight to a set of consent-related scenarios that we developed a series of questions around.

• These questions were then answered and discussed through individual and community discussions were we discovered and designed alternative consent frameworks, principles and design considerations.