GDPR

THE CONSENT IMPOSSIBILITY THEOREM

The Consent Impossibility Theorem infographic showing mathematical proof that informed consent is impossible: required cognitive load of 376 hours per year versus available human capacity of 40 hours per year, creating 31.6x gap that proves consent-based governance cannot function

Why Human Autonomy Collapsed the Moment We Moved Online This analysis establishes that informed consent—the foundation of privacy law, contract law, and democratic governance—is mathematically impossible in digital systems. The cognitive requirements for understanding data practices exceed human capacity by orders of magnitude. This is not a failure of implementation. This is structural impossibility. Every THE CONSENT IMPOSSIBILITY THEOREM