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Online privacy policies or terms and conditions ideally provide users with information about how their personal data are being used. The reality is that very few users read them: they are long, often hard to understand, and ubiquitous. The average internet user cannot realistically read and understand all aspects that apply to them and thus give informed consent to the companies who use their personal data. In this article, we provide a basic overview of a solution to the problem. We suggest that software could allow users to delegate the consent process and consent could thus be automated. The article investigates the practical feasibility of this idea. After suggesting that it is feasible, we develop some normative issues that we believe should be addressed before automated consent is implemented.

"Informed consent is a central topic in contemporary biomedical ethics. Yet attempts to set defensible and feasible standards for consenting have led to persistent difficulties. In Rethinking Informed Consent in Bioethics, Neil Manson and Onora O'Neill set debates about informed consent in medicine and research in a fresh light. They show why informed consent cannot be fully specific or fully explicit, and why more specific consent is not always ethically better. They argue that consent needs distinctive communicative transactions, by which other obligations, prohibitions and rights can be waived or set aside in controlled and specific ways

Informed consent has emerged as an issue both of great importance & substantial uncertainty & confusion. Examined are some of the conceptual & practical complexities of informed consent; some implications of empirical knowledge are suggested. Among the issues considered are the purposes of informed consent, ethical vs legal functions of informed consent, the distinction between informed consent & consent forms, & whether informed consent is an ideal that can never be achieved. Informed consent is presently not a reliable method of protecting Ss & patients from harm because of limited commitment of professionals to the concept itself, the tendency for procedures to be substituted for substance, the dependence of the quality of consent on many factors, including the characteristics of the Ss or patients, and the tendency of human Ss review committees to confine their attention to consent forms rather than to the process by which consent is sought, & lack of knowledge about how to judge r1sks, benefits, & the selection of research Ss. Modified HA.