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New type of sneakwrap form

By Jennifer Stephens

This posting deals with someone questioning a medical form to send his medical information, name, DOB and SSN to a genetics institute. He protested and eventually was able to get his procedure completed without signing the extra form. Ed Foster calls it a new sneakwrap form.

By Ed Foster, Section The Gripelog
Posted on Tue Apr 22, 2008 at 12:06:50 AM PDT

We are all increasingly inured to the daily assaults various institutions make on our rights and privacy through the sneakwrap terms in their forms, mail stuffers, warranties, monthly statements, etc. But some medical patients in one metropolis that will remain nameless are just a little safer today from such outrages because of one reader who read the fine print, took the time to think about it, and then said no.

cont. at http://www.gripe2ed.com/scoop/story/2008/4/22/0650/61879

Full post as published by Lex Scripta on April 23, 2008 (boomark / email).