What constitutes consent is the second element. And you need to be able to express and write what is a valid consent ? Or how does invalid consent look like? And the third part of the question is being able to tell how consent can be given in an online environment? What can constitute as a valid consent or an indication of valid consent in an online environment?

Information Commissioner’s Office

Question has actually consists of three questions, So it asks three different things from you.

1- Which is the elements of consent. ( Which the Information Commissioner’s Office says anyway.) So the what Information Commissioner’s Office says, is just kind of an opening remark, go to the question critically discussed the importance of consent, you need to this is the first part of the question, but it doesn’t have you don’t have to start with it. But this is a part one of the three parts. But you need to be careful here. Because the importance of consent, or let’s say, to be able to express why consent is important might not be easy. I am asking a very important philosophical debate in the literature in this part of question. Why the literature think consent is important. that’s the first thing.

2- What constitutes consent is the second element. And you need to be able to express and write what is a valid consent ? Or how does invalid consent look like?

3-And the third part of the question is being able to tell how consent can be given in an online environment? What can constitute as a valid consent or an indication of valid consent in an online environment? And equally, what types of activities cannot be? How consent can be given in an online environment? (You need to read and do more research to answer this part please. The first part could be more involved with the scholarly debates rather than the act. Because it’s the about the importance of consent. probably when you look at the GDPR. It doesn’t say why consent is important. It might give you an idea, you might well give reference to the GDPR while describing why consent is important, but you can’t find kind of a sentence, why consent is important in act it is not possible, but you will find fruitful discussion in the literature in the debate. When I say referencing to EU law, I am not only talking about the GDPR. But also some European data protection boards are working part directives, opinions,

So just approach the question and approach the references holistically. There might be many elements, the GDPR itself, the opinions of the working party directors, or European Data Protection Board opinions on consent and other things. And there are actually two consent opinions in a way. And also literature, there are many, many things.

So you should be able to answer all the three parts correctly by referencing the EU law. But the depth or the context in which you give reference might be diverse.