Filed under consent
Every brief tagged "consent".
- § 01 · AI-GOVERNANCE
AI Agents and the Limits of Consent — When 'Authorisation' Stops Being One Click
Li Wenlong (科技利维坦) takes the Doubao phone assistant — an AI that 'reads your screen' and acts across apps — and asks whether the consent/authorisation mechanism that traditional data law leans on can survive the agent era. His four challenges: the app-bounded 'private' environment dissolves as data and permissions move across apps (with Nissenbaum's Contextual Integrity as the only real conceptual anchor, and far from operational); agents that *act* (not just retrieve) push informed consent past the point of failure already reached by personalised ads; purpose limitation collapses because an agent chooses its own path, means and decisions from a low-information instruction, edging into automated decision-making; and ultra vires agency shifts liability from user to platform, with China's 'hallucination case' and the Air Canada case as the only thin precedents. For overseas counsel building or advising on agentic AI in China: a map of why 'authorisation' is becoming a problem of agency, system control, liability allocation and autonomy — not a checkbox — and why transparency is now a prerequisite, not a feature.