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The Form Asked My Permission to Share My Health Data. Then It Wouldn’t Let Me Say No. – The Markup

The forms can make opting out practically impossible, and experts say the design shifts responsibility between clinics and vendors.

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Dark patterns force patients to share their data with big healthcare networks, even when the privacy form they’re signing explicitly says they can opt-out. Gabriel Hongsdusit When Paula Stannard, one of the federal government’s top healthcare privacy officials, visited her eye doctor this year, she was asked to sign a form, acknowledging she’d received a privacy notice about how the office would use her health data.  “Had I received the notice …

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themarkup.org broke the news on Wednesday, May 27, 2026.
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