‘The multifaceted aspects of the “new consent”’

Today, consent seems an important occurrence of our daily life. Traditionally, consent was the staple of classical contract law but consent is nowadays relevant not only for making contracts, but also in sexual relationships, in surrogate motherhood relationship, or in the use of our image. The new world, the digital world, is lives of: regulation of data, cookies, platforms and their services, everything is built on consent. The narrative about consent goes hand in hand with liberté (Fabre Magnan 2023): it proposes an idealized contractual freedom, or consent, as the greatest expression of our decision making power and therefore of our freedom … (more)

[Bianca Gardella Tedeschi, Transformative Private Law Blog, 23 October 2024]

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