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Consumer companies such as 23andMe have to obtain opt-in consent from consumers to collect, hold and share genetic information, whether for research or commercial purposes, and to obtain consent to transfer it to others.

“There’s lots of different actors who would want this data for a lot of different purposes, far beyond what you probably thought you were consenting to when you were just interested in genealogy.”

Girls ages 15 or over don’t need parental consent.

A senior officer told social services that he believed Lorraine had mental health issues, and tried to contact her GP without her consent.

Department of Justice’s consent decree, which mandated reforms to addressed basic problems of accountability that stretched back decades.