~ COnSeNT 2021 ~

Data Protection and privacy regulations are currently amongst the most prominent changes across the globe, and have triggered a change in how consent is obtained and used for Personal Data management. At the forefront, there’s the EU General Data Protection Regulation (2016) which brought dramatic changes to the Internet as we know it, and influence other regulationss such as the California Privacy Rights Act in 2020.

Regulations, such as the GDPR, dictate where consent is required, it is 'valid' only when obtained before processing data of an individual, and meets a number of requirements: it must be freely given, prior to any data collection, informed, specific, unambiguous, readable and accessible and revocable.

Pursuant to such requirements, both research and industry move towards the direction of increasing transparency, accountability, privacy by design to ensure the required legal compliance. This has led to standardized user centric consent solutions such as the Consent Receipt Specification (Kantara, 2018), the Internet Advertising Bureau’s Transparency and Consent Framework standard (IAB TCF, 2019), ISO/IEC 29184 Online privacy notices and consent (2020), and the Global Privacy Controls (GPC, 2020). Such efforts are aimed to comply with regulations and provide user empowerment.

Consent Management as a discipline is only now becoming prominent as an emerging fruit of the many challenges across various domains - legal, technological, sociological, usability, privacy, and security. The current implementation of consent and its management in the Internet is still in its infancy when handling multiple requirements stemming from users, devices, businesses, publishers, consent management platforms, content providers, third-parties, regulators, and information itself. Furthermore, new uses of personal data, including business models and a data-driven economiy, require clarity on the topic of Consent.

The COnSeNT Workshop will offer an international forum for researchers and practitioners, across all areas, to exchange and bring perspectives, lessons learned and new insights to the state of the art and practice of Consent Management. It will provide a forum to share, discuss, and present novel ideas and solutions related to the areas of Consent, and its impact and relevance to the larger domains of privacy and security.

Submitted papers must be in English, unpublished, and must not be currently under review for any other publication.

Submissions must follow the official IEEE Conference Proceedings format: LaTeX, Template Instructions, IEEE Template Repository

Regular papers: Full papers must be at most 6 single-spaced, double column pages. Papers that do not meet the size and formatting requirements will not be reviewed. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and published in IEEE Xplore.

Discussion papers: We also welcome early stage results, novel ideas and propositions, position statements, and extended abstracts, and other forms of work to foster discussion and exploration of the topics related to consent. For this, we invite shorter pages up to 4 pages in the same format as regulat papers. These papers must also be double blind and will be peer reviewed, but not published as part of the proceedings. We will instead make them available through the website before the event.

The review process is double-blind / anonymous. Papers must be anonymised prior to submission for review by removing any identifying information. Non-anonymised papers will be rejected without reviews..

All papers must be in PDF format and submitted through EasyChair.

Morning

• 09h00 - Opening and welcome
• 09h15 - Paper presentations
• 11h15 - Break
• 11h30 - Keynote by Dr Johnny Ryan FRHistS (confirmed)

Afternoon

• 12h00 - Paper presentations
• 13h00 - Lunch Break
• 14h00 - Paper presentations
• 16h00 - Panel Discussion (TBA)
• 17h00 - Closing Remarks