How to enable truly informed choices? Let's co-draft the standard for Art. 88b Digital Omnibus!
Workshop
Le Baixu
Thursday 21.05 — 16:00 - 17:15
Organising Institution
Einstein Center Digital Future / Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society / Law & Innovation
Europe
According to its current draft, the EU Commission has the task of developing or commissioning the development of a standard for the technical implementation of Article 88b Digital Omnibus. Article 88b solves the current cookie banner problem by forcing service providers to respect the signals of consent agents. Consent agents allow consumers to set their preferences for their consent once and in advance, which the agent then passes on to the provider of the service used. However, the success of Article 88b in practice, and thus already in the trilogue, will depend heavily on how these agents are technically designed. Will consumers simply be enabled to accept or reject everything without still understanding what the data is actually to be used for and what the advantages and disadvantages are? In this workshop, we want to critically discuss a draft standard (ConStand) that we have developed to avoid this risk.
Felix Mikolasch is a Data Protection Lawyer at noyb - European Center for Digital Rights, a Vienna-based not-for-profit association focused on strategic GDPR enforcement.