Personal Digest: When consent fails: stadium scans to stolen cells

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Personal Digest: When consent fails: stadium scans to stolen cells
Digest Newsletter · Aug 1, 2026
Personal Digest: When consent fails: stadium scans to stolen cells

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Consent crisis — Biometrics at sports venues, the HeLa settlement, and gaps in health AI and school psychiatric practices together expose a widespread failure to secure meaningful consent.

Informed Consent

Informed Consent

Consent crisis: from stadium scans to stolen cells and AI in medicine

Facial recognition (techxplore.com) · HeLa (the-scientist.com) · Artificial Intelligence (en.ilsole24ore.com)

BDSM

BDSM

Science and screen soften stigma: BDSM gets a fairer look

Stigma (vrt.be) · consent (theartnewspaper.com) · Film (rollingstone.com)

Sexual Minority

Sexual Minority

NIH funds birthing research for gender-minority parents

Obstetrics (dailycaller.com) · Reproductive health (thecollegefix.com)

Fiction

Fiction

Trauma and Turing tests: genocide memoirs and AI fanfic fights

Genocide (theguardian.com) · Artificial Intelligence (nytimes.com)

Sexuality

Sexuality

Reckoning and reframe: church abuse, insurance, and Global South perspectives

Sexual abuse in the Catholic Church (bycommonconsent.com) · Sexual and reproductive health (phys.org)

Writing

Writing

Handwriting, letters, and a pushback on AI: craft in the spotlight

Handwriting (pbs.org) · Letter (message) (startlandnews.com) · Indigenous Peoples Of The Americas (cherokeephoenix.org)

gender diversity

gender diversity

Progress stalled: pay gaps, policy rollbacks, and new diversity metrics

Women in the workplace (hr-brew.com) · Educational Policy (al.com) · Academic research (timeshighereducation.com)