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Startup idea: proof of consent as a service.

A website/app where you can quickly declare consent for a specific activity, and share that declaration privately with a specific other user of the app. Each entry is secure/private to only you and the person you share it with. The entries are timestamped, you cannot delete them.

Then before the act, you quickly do a consent exchange and each person has the proof that the other consented.

You could make the entries visible only for a period of time to their own users, after which they are only accessible if there is a legal process, to avoid them being used as trophies/outing.

Obligatory Dave Chapelle Love contracts: http://www.cc.com/video-clips/jwmvxd/chappelle-s-show-love-c...

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Such a service does exist: https://legalfling.io/

But such services won't work as consent can be revoked anytime. It doesn't matter if you signed a contract, you can at any point say "No" and the consent is gone.

It's funny cause i live in a very sexually active community, with bdsm, porn pro, ex prostitute, etc. The people being recognize as the sexiest and having the most partners never, ever ask anything.

I have the very unique life style that makes half of my friends also hard core geeks, d&d players, hairy sysadmin, or able to tell which multiverse this particular batman costume is. They are also doubting every of their moves : is it allowed, it it disrespectful, will the other one be offended or hurt ? They really don't have much sexual success.

I love both of my groups, and none in them exhibit any signs they are better or worse persons. But i didn't experience that explicitly asking for consent made things better.

Not being an asshole does, and is pretty much unrelated to sex.

Still can’t detect whether the consentor/s are legally capable of consenting.

Signing with your private key, only for this purpose, should be considered consent.

Private keys don’t prove you don’t have a gun to your head.

Entering a trap phrase elicits a success response for the attacker's benefit, and then surreptitiously gives coordinates to law enforcement, emergency contacts, Mark Zuckerberg, whoever.

See, we've almost got this built!

What’s stopping someone from entering a trap phrase to... entrap the other party?

The cops showing up to a non-rape would probably be the kicker.

Not that I think this tech should exist or be necessary in the first place.

or that you aren't drunk, had your phone weakly secured and accessed by someone else (passed out and they used your fingerprint or something), or probably a number of other possibilities

Huh. That almost sounds like requiring someone to take some personal responsibility for their own security!

Something we as a society, especially when it comes to tech, need to strive for much more.

I'm...pretty sure I just became in support of that controversy, for no other reason than to improve cryptographic proof UX.

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