web service consumer even if such person is not enabled to provide user 39 s consent to share such user 39 s attributes and provided that other persons at a hierarchically higher position are enabled to provide such user 39 s consent instead of the owner of the user 39 s attributes whilst respecting high requirements on privacy for both therefore the present invention provides for a number of cooperating entities and a new method the cooperating entities being configurable in such manner that delegation modules comprising different relationships of user 39 s consent may be distributed among some of the cooperating entities and transmitted between the number of cooperating entities depending on the required level of privacy set on a per network basis and on a per user basis application_number US 8969805 A description the following describes some preferred embodiments for providing a mechanism whereby a user 39 s consent to share user 39 s attributes is given by a user other than the one owning the user 39 s attributes an important contribution behind the present invention is that dependencies on the approval between different users namely different principals in the wording of lap are firstly determined by an entity playing the role of a.