The phrase "consent to processing" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is typically used in legal or formal contexts to refer to the act of giving permission or agreement for personal data to be collected, stored, and used. Example: By clicking "I agree" on the website's Terms and Conditions, you are giving your consent to processing of your personal information for the purpose of creating an account.
And thereby seek to foist a greater share of the responsibility for obtaining consent to processing user data onto its customers.
Earlier this year it began asking Europeans for consent to processing their selfies for facial recognition purposes — a highly controversial technology that regulatory intervention in the region had previously blocked.
But here's the thing: Both the current and the incoming EU legal framework for data protection sets the bar for consent to processing so-called special category data equally high — at "explicit" consent.
In plainer English, this is being interpreted by data experts as the regulator stating that consent to processing personal data cannot be gained through a framework arrangement which bundles a number of uses behind a single "I agree" button that, when clicked, passes consent to partners via a contractual relationship.
Last May, immediately after Europe's new privacy regulation came into force, noyb lodged its first series of strategic complaints — targeted at what it dubbed "forced consent," arguing that Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Google's Android OS do not give users a free choice to consent to processing their data for ad targeting, as consenting is required to use the service.
Caregivers who contributed to the research have been informed on the project and gave consent to processing of personal data (L. 675/96) and the implementation of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures related to pharmacological monitoring protocol "CRONOS "DM 20.07.2000".
Working with personal data is neither necessary nor acceptable at a SPL (although patients may have consented to processing of personal data where needed).
Schrems argues that the companies are using a strategy of "forced consent" to continue processing the individuals' personal data — when in fact the law requires that users be given a free choice unless a consent is strictly necessary for provision of the service.
By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
