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labour -> labor per W3C manual of style US spelling (#429)
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Use US spelling of "labor" instead of "labour', per the W3C Manual of Style: https://www.w3.org/Guide/manual-of-style/#Spelling

Co-authored-by: Jeffrey Yasskin <[email protected]>
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When deployed thoughtfully, these mechanisms can improve [=people=]'s [=autonomy=]. Often,
however, they are used as a way to avoid putting in the difficult work of deciding which
types of [=processing=] are [=appropriate=] and which are not, offloading [=privacy labour=]
types of [=processing=] are [=appropriate=] and which are not, offloading [=privacy labor=]
to the people using a system.

[=People=] should be able to [=consent=] to data sharing that would
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for the scale of processing implied by web systems), and experience with existing systems
shows that they make it hard for [=people=] to exercise their rights.

### Privacy Labour {#privacy-labour}
### Privacy Labor {#privacy-labor}

<dfn data-lt="privacy labor|labour|labor">Privacy labour</dfn> is the practice of having a [=person=] do
<dfn data-lt="labor">Privacy labor</dfn> is the practice of having a [=person=] do
the work of ensuring [=data processing=] of which they are the subject or recipient is
[=appropriate=], instead of putting the responsibility on the [=actors=] who are doing the processing.
Data systems that are based on asking [=people=] for their [=consent=] tend to increase
[=privacy labour=].
[=privacy labor=].

More generally, implementations of [=privacy=] often offload [=labour=] to [=people=]. This is
More generally, implementations of [=privacy=] often offload [=labor=] to [=people=]. This is
notably true of the regimes descended from the <dfn data-lt="FIPs">Fair Information Practices</dfn>
([=FIPs=]), a loose set of principles initially elaborated in the 1970s in support of individual
[=autonomy=] in the face of growing concerns with databases. The [=FIPs=] generally assume that
there is sufficiently little [=data processing=] taking place that any [=person=] will be able to
carry out sufficient diligence to be [=autonomous=] in their decision-making. Since they offload
the [=privacy labour=] to people and assume perfect, unlimited [=autonomy=], the [=FIPs=] do not
the [=privacy labor=] to people and assume perfect, unlimited [=autonomy=], the [=FIPs=] do not
forbid specific types of [=data processing=] but only place them under different procedural
requirements. This approach is no longer [=appropriate=].

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These forms might be governmental bodies at various administrative levels, standards
organisations, worker bargaining units, or civil society fora.
Even though collective decision-making can be better than offloading
[=privacy labour=] to [=individuals=], it is not a panacea.
[=privacy labor=] to [=individuals=], it is not a panacea.
Decision-making bodies need to be designed carefully,
for example using the <a data-cite="IAD#">Institutional Analysis and Development framework</a>.

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Attempts to obtain consent to [=processing=] that is not in accordance with the person's
true preferences result in imposing unwanted [=privacy labour=] on the person, and may
true preferences result in imposing unwanted [=privacy labor=] on the person, and may
result in people erroneously giving consent that they regret later.

An [=actor=] should not prompt a [=person=] for consent if the
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