A detailed white paper for the Georgetown Law Technology Review explores how the guidelines of informed consent that apply in research areas can impact privacy’s traditional notice-and-consent framework. The paper is written from a US perspective but considers the notice and consent requirements of international data protection laws, such as the EU General Data Protection Regulation and e-Privacy Directive. Researchers are required to notify subjects of what information will be collected, how it will be used and the potential impact of those uses. Applying the standards to privacy “would go a long way towards creating the conditions for meaningful informed consent.”
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