Panelists: digital trust depends on consent, transparency and user control

Daniel Polloquin, who described himself as a principal for digital trust and privacy, said governments should treat consent as a continuum and let users scale how much data they share. "It's a timeline where you can decide to have low trust and then little information will be kept about you," Polloquin said, describing user-driven consent and the trade-offs between privacy and convenience.

Panelists described technical and managerial approaches to limit unnecessary data collection. In response to a question about AI interfaces and oversharing, a panelist said programs should not create fields for sensitive information they do not need: "if you really do not want the information, you just simply do not ask for it and you don't create any space to put the information," a panelist said, urging design that minimizes stored data and relies on consent management and revocation where appropriate.