• IEEE, Wednesday, February 3, 2016 10 AM

Some personal genomics use “clickwrap” contracts, the typical scrolling legalese few people actually read. Andelka Phillips, a doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford law school took a microscope to this practice. She says she was struck by how much they resembled standard clickwrap contracts for conventional tech companies on the Internet. Except the stakes are frighteningly high, including losing control of parts or the whole of one’s genome sequence, which can’t be changed like a password or iTunes account.

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