https://yanqian.github.io/tags/consent/Recent content in Consent on Armstrong YanHugoenSun, 21 Jun 2026 18:34:32 +0800https://yanqian.github.io/posts/publish/why-sharing-myinfo-is-more-than-autofill/Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:34:32 +0800https://yanqian.github.io/posts/publish/why-sharing-myinfo-is-more-than-autofill/<p>A form asks for your name, address, nationality, contact details, income information, or family records. You have filled in some version of this form before. The service may also ask for documents, then someone or some backend process has to verify that the documents match what you typed.</p> <p>Then a button appears:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-text" data-lang="text"><span class="line"><span class="cl">Retrieve Myinfo </span></span></code></pre></div><p>From the user&rsquo;s point of view, this looks like autofill.</p> <p>That is true, but incomplete. Autofill saves typing. Myinfo does something more important:</p>