Published June 4, 2021 | Version AAM
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Consent Through the Lens of Semantics:State of the Art Survey and Best Practices

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  • 1. University of Innsbruck
  • 2. ADAPT Centre, Trinity College Dublin

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The acceptance of the GDPR legislation in 2018 started a new technological shift towards achieving transparency. GDPR put focus on the concept of informed consent applicable for data processing, which led to an increase of the responsibilities regarding data sharing for both end users and companies. This paper presents a literature survey of existing solutions that use semantic technology for implementing consent. The main focus is on ontologies, how they are used for consent representation and for consent management in combination with other technologies such as blockchain. We also focus on visualisation solutions aimed at improving individuals’ consent comprehension. Finally, based on the overviewed state of the art we propose best practices for consent implementation.

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This research has been supported by the smashHit European Union project funded under Horizon 2020 Grant 871477. Harshvardhan J. Pandit is funded by the Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant GOIPD/2020/790, by European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under NGI TRUST Grant 825618 for Privacy as Expected: Consent Gateway project, and through the ADAPT SFI Centre for Digital Media Technology which is funded by Science Foundation Ireland through the SFI Research Centres Programme and is co-funded under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through Grant 13/RC/2106_P2.

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smashHit – SMART DISPATCHER FOR SECURE AND CONTROLLED SHARING OF DISTRIBUTED PERSONAL AND INDUSTRIAL DATA 871477
European Commission
ADAPT: Centre for Digital Content Platform Research 13/RC/2106
Science Foundation Ireland
NGI_TRUST – Partnership for innovative technological solutions to ensure privacy and enhance trust for the human-centric Internet 825618
European Commission