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Application of Informed Consent to Information Technology Issues

With the theory laid out in the previous chapter, I now turn to recommendations for a practical application of the theory to the actual issues as discussed in Chapter 2. The way I will go about this is by applying my theory of informed consent for information technology to the particular problem of End User License Agreements (although it could easily be used for privacy policies as well). In doing this, I will briefly recap the problems from Chapter 2 and the theory to be applied from Chapter 3. I will then look at some current and recent suggestions for improvements or practical implementations of mechanisms to deal with informed consent. Then, in the third section, I will firstly identify the normative expectations, establish the communication framework, and then suggest an agreement mechanism that greatly improves the potential for informed consent decisions for EULAs. Examples will be used to illustrate the process, but will not cover the details of the actual legal agreement. It will, instead, focus on delivering the content of this agreement in a way that improves the user experience and focuses on changing the approach for informed consent in EULAs. Finally, I demonstrate two models that show examples of practical implementation of these concepts and make some conclusions about their feasibility.



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Catherine Flick 2010-02-03