Consent on the Fly: Developing Ethical Verbal Consent for Voice Assistants

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Alexa's voice-forward consent lets users grant skills access mid-conversation but delegates control to the platform voice so third-party and system prompts sound identical, hiding who controls data. Sample Alexa Skills Kit flows lack several GDPR-required details, and research finds almost half of Alexa skills' privacy policies are missing or inadequate. Conversations impose about eight seconds reprompt pressure. Practical fixes include alternate system voices, GUI links to contextual permissions (Google's permissions API as an example), developer guidance, and stronger vetting and revocation paths.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:14Developing Ethical Verbal Consent for Voice Assistance
3. 3:50Informed Consent Process
4. 4:29Restoring Symmetry to the Consent Process
5. 7:27Importance of Disentangling Consent as a Legal Mechanism

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