Yup. And that's why OpenID Connect refers to "conditions for processing"
per UK ICO.
Not to mention, we have discussed these in the WG as well.


2013/12/19 Josh Howlett <josh.howl...@ja.net>

> >
> >There are a lot of contexts where consent is problematic to obtain,
> >where people simply click right through informed consent prompts,
> >and/or where obtaining consent is directly against the public interest
> >(e.g., public health monitoring of disease would not work very well if
> >folks could opt-out of such data sharing).  I say this because this is
> >a big difference between the US and EU views on privacy regulation,
> >with the EU favoring explicit, informed consent pretty heavily. I
> >think the US view is less coherent, but would probably be
> >characterized as "consent or opt-in is required for especially
> >sensitive contexts, demographics, and data types".
>
> In the EU, consent can be used as a legal grounds for data processing, but
> it is not the only one, nor is there any preference given to it over the
> other six grounds. If anything there has been a tendency to use one of the
> other grounds, because it can be difficult to implement in practice.
>
>    "If incorrectly used, the data subject¹s control becomes illusory
>     and consent constitutes an inappropriate basis for processing."
>
>
> (
> http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/article-29/documentation/opini
> on-recommendation/files/2011/wp187_en.pdf)
>
> Josh.
>
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Nat Sakimura (=nat)
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