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EnCoRe – Ensuring Consent and Revocation

What we are
EnCoRe is a multi-disciplinary research project, spanning across a number of IT and social science specialisms, that is researching how to improve the rigour and ease with which individuals can grant and, more importantly, revoke their consent to the use, storage and sharing of their personal data by others.

Our motivation
As more and more personal information flows from individuals to organisations when they interact online, people are becoming more and more concerned that they can not effectively control what this information is used for, with which other organisations it is shared, and where it is stored. They may have given their consent, often in vague terms and implicitly, for its use, sharing and storage, but they have no real control over the specifics of these, nor the ability to revoke their consent and be sure that their wish is respected. In summary, they are not able to control where their personal information flows to, and this makes them uneasy about interacting online.

Our vision
The overall vision of this project is to make giving consent as reliable and easy as turning on a tap, and revoking that consent as reliable and easy as turning it off again.

Who we are
We are a UK research project, with 6 academic and industrial participants, that is partially funded by the UK Government’s Technology Strategy Board, Economic & Social Research Council and Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council.

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(c) 2008 The EnCoRe Project. EnCoRe receives funding from the UK Government's Technology Strategy Board, Economic & Social Research Council and Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council.