consentslide
/kənˈsɛntˌslaɪd/nounUnverifiedThe slow widening of how collected data is used, far beyond what a person originally agreed to.
Nobody read a new terms page; there was nothing to read. The photo album becomes training data, the address book becomes a social graph, one purpose slides into six. Consentslide names expansion without permission-seeking — drift where a signature used to be required.
Etym. — consent + slide: the motion is gradual and downhill, and the consent given at the top no longer describes the bottom.
Rel. — dopamining
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