Re: One Party Consent Model

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Markus Hofmann wrote:

> Alex Rousskov wrote:
>
> > Thus, we are talking about a two-party consent case. Nothing "bad"
> > is happening in jfc examples from consent point of view.
>
> So, what you're saying is that (a) there are mechanisms in place
> that can prevent things like the ones described in the example, and
> (b) if users accept an environment that doesn't use these
> mechanisms, they implicitly accept that things mentioned in the
> example can happen, so they basically consent that this can happen?

Yes.

OPES cannot be blamed for breaking something that is already broken.
If something is already broken, OPES should not be expected to fix it.
If something is not broken, OPES is expected to keep it that way.

IAB concerns and such only apply to non-broken environments. They are
meaningless in broken environments that already violate them without
OPES help.

Alex.