About Consumer Genomics, Genetic Data Privacy and Ethics

SMS Advertising and Consumer Privacy: Analysis of Factors Affecting Consumer Willingness to send and Receive Information in Permission and Data based SMS advertising

The increasing penetration rate of mobile phone, with specific characteristics of this medium, such as almost everywhere with the audience, has attracted companies' attention to it as an advertising channel. Mobile devices facilitate highly customized marketing communication in terms of person, time location and context so numbers of companies that use this medium for communicating with their c...

Consumer Ethics Research: Reframing the Debate about Consumption for Good

Consumer ethics is an underdeveloped specialism of business and marketing ethics, within which most publications have focused on bad rather than on good ethics, and on consumer dishonesty rather than on consumer idealism or consumer responsibility. This conceptual paper explores the latter perspective, and examines how we can seek to understand “consumer social responsibility” from perspectives...

Consuming Genomics: Regulating Direct-to-Consumer Genetic and Genomic Information

Ethics and patient privacy.

OBJECTIVE To provide a brief introduction to the ethical and, to some extent, the legal issues surrounding patient privacy and confidentiality. DATA SYNTHESIS The privacy of patient medical records and patient confidentiality has moved to the forefront of ethical and legal issues in health care. Technological advances, the growth and expansion of managed care, the emergence of consumerism, an...

Consent to 'personal' genomics and privacy. Direct-to-consumer genetic tests and population genome research challenge traditional notions of privacy and consent.