Privacy and consent. A legal and UX&HMI approach for data protection

In Italy the issue of consent to the processing of personal data (privacy) is mainly dealt with the traditional methodological perspective of legal studies, namely: 1) considering existing rules as a datum; 2) analyzing in a de iure condito perspective the legislation in force both at national and at European and international level, accentuating the differences in US / EU approach with ideological contents; 3) insisting on clarity and awareness of the information at multiple levels of usability and administration.

According to this perspective, it is hard to find awareness of the different articulations that the topic takes on in relation to specific cases or the type of “data” processed (eg the request for consent to the processing of health data at the entrance of an operating room appears different from the request for consent to the processing of data relating to one’ s musical tastes placed at the opening of an APP to download songs, which in turn appears to be different from the information of video-shooting of one’ s own image placed at the entrance of a pharmacy).