According to Elliot et al., awareness is one of the two core concepts, the other being agreement, that make it easier to pragmatically understand higher order concepts such informed consent and transparency. Data subjects can be aware of processing of their data without having agreed to it or vice versa.
Elliot, M., Mackey, E. and O’Hara, K., 2020. The Anonymisation Decision-Making Framework: European practitioners’ guide, 2nd edition. United Kingdom Anonymisation Network, https://ukanon.net/framework/.
Elliot, M., Mackey, E. and O’Hara, K., 2020. The Anonymisation Decision-Making Framework: European practitioners’ guide, 2nd edition. United Kingdom Anonymisation Network, https://ukanon.net/framework/.