Consent-O-Matic: Automatically Answering Consent Pop-ups Using Adversarial Interoperability

Midas Nouwens; Rolf Bagge; Janus Bager Kristensen; Clemens Nylandsted Klokmose

doi:10.1145/3491101.3519683

Consent-O-Matic: Automatically Answering Consent Pop-ups Using Adversarial Interoperability

Midas Nouwens, Rolf Bagge, Janus Bager Kristensen, Clemens Nylandsted Klokmose

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Abstract

The majority of consent pop-ups on the web do not meet the requirements for legally valid consent laid out in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In the face of a lack of enforcement, we present the browser extension Consent-O-Matic which uses adversarial interoperability to automatically answer these pop-ups based on the user's preferences. We document how the current implementation of these pop-ups support and inhibit interoperability, focussing on the difference between static and dynamic HTML, the quality of the semantic markup, and the visibility of the system's state; and we present the implementation of Consent-O-Matic. Lastly, we discuss the possibilities, limitations, and concerns of an adversarial approach.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2022 - Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	Apr 2022
Article number	238
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450391566
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519683
Publication status	Published - Apr 2022
Event	2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2022 - Virtual, Online, United States Duration: 30 Apr 2022 → 5 May 2022

Conference

Conference	2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2022
Country/Territory	United States
City	Virtual, Online
Period	30/04/2022 → 05/05/2022
Sponsor	ACM SIGCHI

Series	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Keywords

adversarial interoperability
browser extension
General Data Protection Regulation
regulatory enforcement

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Nouwens, M, Bagge, R, Kristensen, JB & Klokmose, CN 2022, Consent-O-Matic: Automatically Answering Consent Pop-ups Using Adversarial Interoperability. in CHI 2022 - Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 238, Association for Computing Machinery, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2022, Virtual, Online, United States, 30/04/2022. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519683

Consent-O-Matic: Automatically Answering Consent Pop-ups Using Adversarial Interoperability. / Nouwens, Midas; Bagge, Rolf; Kristensen, Janus Bager et al.
CHI 2022 - Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2022. 238 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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Nouwens M, Bagge R, Kristensen JB , Klokmose CN. Consent-O-Matic: Automatically Answering Consent Pop-ups Using Adversarial Interoperability. In CHI 2022 - Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery. 2022. 238. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). doi: 10.1145/3491101.3519683

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