Data Protection and Consenting Communication Mechanisms: Current Proposals and Challenges

Data Protection and Consenting Communication Mechanisms (DPCCMs) have the potential of becoming one of the most fundamental means of protecting humans’ privacy and agency. However, they are yet to be improved, adopted and enforced. In this paper, based on the results of a technical document analysis and an expert study, we we identify some of the main technical factors that can be comparison factors between some of the main interdisciplinary challenges of a Human-centric, Accountable, Lawful, and Ethical practice of personal data processing on the Internet and discuss whether the current DPCCMs proposal can contribute towards their resolution. In particular, we discuss the two current open specifications, i.e. the Advanced Data Protection Control (ADPC) and the Global Privacy Control (GPC) based on the identified challenges.