The form asked my permission to share my health data. Then it wouldn’t let me say no.
Patients at healthcare providers are encountering consent forms that nominally offer the right to opt out of data sharing with large health networks, but interface design prevents them from actually exercising that choice, effectively coercing consent.
Why this matters: When opt-out rights exist on paper but are deliberately obstructed in practice, informed consent becomes fiction — leaving patients' sensitive medical data flowing to third parties without meaningful control, and eroding a foundational protection in health privacy law.
Who should care: Healthcare professionals · Privacy officers · Compliance · General readers · Policy
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