Objective One of the key changes in societal trends and lifestyles witnessed over the past few years has been the move on-line of many consumers and the way they have become increasingly sophisticated in their media consumption habits. Have these recent changes to consumer and commercial practices developed in such a way that consumers are (in)voluntarily signing away their fundamental right to privacy? This project (CONSENT) seeks to examine how consumer behaviour, and commercial practices are changing the role of consent in the processing of personal data. While consumer consent is a fundamental value on which the European market economy is based, the way consumer consent is obtained is questionable in popular user-generative/user-generated (UGC) online services (including sites like MySpace, YouTube and Facebook), whose commercial success depends to a large extent on the disclosure by their users of substantial amounts of personal data. There is an urgent need to study and analyse the changes in consumption behaviour and consumer culture arising from the emergence of UGC online services and how contractual, commercial and technical practices and other factors affect consumer choice and attitudes toward personal privacy in the digital economy. CONSENT’s multidisciplinary team intends to carry out a status quo analysis of commercial practices, legal position and consumer attitudes, identifying criteria for fairness and best practices, and then create a toolkit for policy makers and corporate counsel which will enable them to address problem identified in the analysis. CONSENT will advance the knowledge base that underpins the formulation and implementation of policies and corporate procedures in the area of privacy and consumer protection with a view to informing policy-making in the European Union and to contribute to the development of European research communities in these areas. Fields of science social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsmicroeconomicssocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementcommercee-commerce Programme(s) FP7-SSH - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities Topic(s) SSH-2009-3.2.1. - Changes in consumption and consumer markets Call for proposal FP7-SSH-2009-A See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research project Coordinator RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN EU contribution € 474 965,60 Address Broerstraat 5 9712CP Groningen Netherlands See on map Region Noord-Nederland Groningen Overig Groningen Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Annette Schockman-Sannes (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (18) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSITA TA MALTA Malta EU contribution € 207 110,00 Address Tal oroqq 2080 Msida See on map Region Malta Malta Malta Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Anita Aloisio (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data COPENHAGEN BUSINESS SCHOOL Denmark EU contribution € 119 619,60 Address Solbjerg plads 3 2000 Frederiksberg See on map Region Danmark Hovedstaden Byen København Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Lise Damsgaard Jørgensen (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN Netherlands EU contribution € 122 625,00 Address Rapenburg 70 2311 EZ Leiden See on map Region West-Nederland Zuid-Holland Agglomeratie Leiden en Bollenstreek Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Erik Kien Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Germany EU contribution € 155 456,00 Address Schlossplatz 2 48149 Muenster See on map Region Nordrhein-Westfalen Münster Münster, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Katharina Steinberg (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data GEORG-AUGUST-UNIVERSITAT GOTTINGEN STIFTUNG OFFENTLICHEN RECHTS Germany EU contribution € 131 427,00 Address Wilhelmsplatz 1 37073 Gottingen See on map Region Niedersachsen Braunschweig Göttingen Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Kurt Von Figura (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITAET HANNOVER Germany EU contribution € 148 527,80 Address Welfengarten 1 30167 Hannover See on map Region Niedersachsen Hannover Region Hannover Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Nikolaus Forgó (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI Romania EU contribution € 68 800,00 Address Mihail kogalniceanu 1 400084 Cluj napoca See on map Region Macroregiunea Unu Nord-Vest Cluj Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Ioana Vasiu (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data ASOCIATIA PENTRU TEHNOLOGIE SI INTERNET Romania EU contribution € 47 100,00 Address Str armenis bl j3 sc d ap 37 6 032483 Bucuresti See on map Activity type Other Administrative Contact Bogdan Manolea (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE Participation ended United Kingdom EU contribution € 65 508,40 Address - 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