The consent forms signed by patients who take part in medical studies are written in such complex language that most Americans could not understand them, a study suggests. The study looked at the ...

A charter school in Georgia started a new year by revisiting old disciplinary policies and then sending consent forms to parents asking for permission to paddle students. Administrators at the Georgia ...

Amazon is about to take employee monitoring to a whole ‘nother level of dystopian surveillance. The retail giant will this week ask delivery drivers in the US to sign a “biometric consent” form or ...

Students who want to drop out of high school in Chicago must now sign a consent form that warns about the likely consequences of not earning a diploma. The disclosure form, which must also be signed ...

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L O S   A N G E L E S, Jan. 7 -- The practice of having prospective sex partners sign consent forms before things heat up may be a sign of the times. Ava Cadell, a Los Angeles-area sex therapist, ...

Amazon is giving its delivery drivers an ultimatum: Give up their privacy or give up their jobs. The e-commerce colossus is forcing its roughly 75,000 US delivery drivers to sign a “biometric consent” ...