Die Freiwilligkeit der datenschutzrechtlichen Einwilligung bei unentgeltlichen Dienstleistungen im Internet

Providers of free internet services regularly link the provision of their services to consent to the commercial processing of user data. Users often respond to such consent requests by quickly declaring their consent. In doing so, many users spend little time considering the modalities of data processing and the potential consequences of data use.
By law, consent only legitimizes processing if it is given voluntarily. This dissertation therefore aims to analyze the challenges for voluntary consent in the context of Internet services and develops a proposal for solving the challenges presented.