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Tag: consent

  • Image representing post: Google Shared My Phone Number!

    Google Shared My Phone Number!

    When people started calling my personal mobile number with questions about a voluntary organisation I'm involved with, I was confused: we weren't sharing that number. It turns out that Google had decided to take the number I used to verify my identity for Google Business some years prior and start putting it in Google Search results. WTF, Google?

    Read more - about 3 minutes (688 words)

    • Article
    • with an accompanying podcast
    • 16 comments
    • posted 21 May, 2025
  • Image representing post: Episode 25: ON CONSENT AND CUDDLING with my daughter Des

    Episode 25: ON CONSENT AND CUDDLING with my daughter Des

    Episode 25 of the Sexplanations Podcast features Dr. Doe's daughter Des, and it's adorable.

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    • Repost
    • posted 9 May, 2019
  • Four hands opening a Placer Consentido packet

    The Four-Handed Condom

    Dan provides another take on why the Tulipán Placer Consentido condom is useless, but it's good that it's being talked about.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (546 words)

    • Article
    • posted 14 April, 2019
  • Image representing post: "Stop Thinking About Consent: It Isn’t Possible and It Isn’t Right"

    "Stop Thinking About Consent: It Isn’t Possible and It Isn’t Right"

    For a philosopher, Helen Nissenbaum is a surprisingly active participant in shaping how we collect, use, and protect personal data. Nissenbaum, who earned her PhD from Stanford, is a professor of information science at Cornell Tech, New York City, where she focuses on the intersection of politics, ethics, and values in technology and digital media …

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    • Repost
    • posted 12 October, 2018
  • That way they would never know

    ...

    Some 702 intimate examinations were done on sedated or anaesthetised patients (table 3). In only 24% of these examinations had written consent been obtained, and a further 24% of examinations were conducted apparently without written or oral consent.

    ...

    Coldicott, Yvette; Pope, Catherine; Roberts, Clive (BMJ)
    This 2003 study at an "English medical school" determined that …

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    • Repost
    • posted 25 September, 2018

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