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Show HN: NoHoops – opt-in consent capitalism (how to ditch the privacy policy)

by chrischapman on 9/20/21, 12:25 PM with 1 comments

• by chrischapman on 9/20/21, 12:26 PM

  Hi. Co-founder here. Thanks for checking this out. We're two guys in the UK building an opt-in consent management system to help eliminate the "privacy policy - consent popup - Accept All" combo (a.k.a 'consent theatre'). We're still building our MVP at the moment so this is more about the core concepts (and closer to something called an MVT which we saw here at HN recently [1]) but we already have a few features you can try out. We'd really appreciate your feedback if you have a moment and happy to answer questions if you have any.

  Basic Premise: this is all about control of personal data. Informed consent is necessary to process personal data. We believe the "privacy policy - consent popup - Accept All" combo needs to be replaced because it inhibits informed consent. That's why our system will have opt-in consent contracts and user-controlled, configurable controller lists. The feature we're starting off with is a web page tab that contains a 47 word, opt-in, consent policy. We're starting with websites but aiming at all industries where informed consent is a lawful requirement to process personal data.

  There are 3 things you can already try out. No need to sign up (we still haven't got signup going yet).

  Our Consent Denied status - https://nohoops.com/consent-denied

  Our tab blocker - https://nohoops.com/tab-blocker

  Our consent tab for websites - https://nohoops.com/getting-started/website-publishers

  We're currently looking for a handful of website publishers who are willing to give our tab a try. Thanks for your time.

  [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28550454