Lexicon · term
Consent layer collapse
Treating the four layers of consent as one undifferentiated thing. The layers are a display-binding proof (exactly what the person was shown when they agreed), a durable receipt (a queryable record that they permitted one specific use), a standing permission (an authority with scope, grantee, expiry, and a way to be withdrawn), and a short-lived runtime lease (one action, one destination, one time window, compiled from the rest). Collapsed, a system reads evidence that someone saw a screen as authority over everything made downstream of it, which is how software comes to claim permission nobody granted.