Questions tagged [consent]
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How can the court system ignore the original definitions of the law?
I’ve been thinking about the foundational laws that were made for the people, the core laws that are considered the original and supreme, the ones that all other laws created later are meant to follow ...
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Does this detail of the Michelle Hadley case count as consent?
I've learned about the Michelle Hadley case in California. Basically, Michelle's ex and his New Wife (NW) had a convoluted scheme where they impersonated Michelle impersonating NW inviting men to come ...
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Must you surrender your actual driver's license during a traffic stop?
During a traffic stop when, as the driver, you are asked for your license (and registration if applicable), do you actually have to provide the originals, or can you provide a copy? I'm curious ...
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What is a reasonable search for an innocent person?
Can a police person do a reasonable search on a person and find nothing, or is the reasonable-ness of a search predicated on finding something?
Can a search be lawful and just be wrong, or is the ...
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How is the age of consent decided in an international relationship with conflicting laws?
Two people are consensually sexting. Person A is under the age of consent of its nation (United States) but person B is in a different nation (Portugal) where person A would be over the age of consent....
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Can doctors administer an experimental treatment without patient consent in an emergency?
Is it legal for doctors to administer an experimental treatment or drug to a patient in an emergency situation where the patient is unable to provide consent?
To provide an example scenario: An ...
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What's a concept that encompasses a customer's acceptance or rejection of terms?
I'm having a real quandary regarding how to name a class [in the context of a SW application] which models the decision of a customer relative to legal terms & also specific actions (such as a ...
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Is it legal (US) to target drunk people and interview them to create (commercial) content a.k.a. street interviews?
In some forms of street interviews, people seem to specifically target intoxicated pedestrians, some seemingly exclusively young women, put camera and microphone in their face and try to get them ...
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Oregon recording laws
In Oregon, is it legal for a participant to make a surreptitious recording of a videoconference call (Zoom or similar) without first obtaining consent from ALL the other participants?
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Is it legal for a website to reveal the earnings of the freelancers publicly without the freelancers' consent?
My question is exactly as the title says. I welcome answers for multiple jurisdictions, but I prefer there be some for any number of states in America, answers for countries in the EU in general, or ...
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Romeo & Juliet laws and age of consent laws
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Are there any US jurisdictions where, given two minors with some difference in their ages, it would be legal for them to start an "intimate relationship" the day before a ...
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In a two-party consent state, can I record video only (no audio) in secret?
From what I understand, the two-party consent state was born from telephone call wiretapping.
Assume I am in a two-party consent state. To record audio and video, I need the other parties involved in ...
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What enforcement exists for medical informed consent?
I'm in the USA, New York. I find nowadays that it's common -- maybe the majority of cases -- in which forms are to be signed for some medically-related purpose, that the system and/or provider ...
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What rights does an employee retain, if any, who does not consent to being monitored on a work IT system?
I am interested in privacy at the interface between one's personal and professional lives. This question is adjacent, but not identical to others related to IT system use (1, 2). Given a workplace IT ...
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Does "fan and celebrity" count as a exploitive in the context of age of consent?
Context: A Reddit thread about Drake kissing a 17 year old girl on stage. People are wondering if laws have been violated.
This took place in Colorado where the age of consent is 17. Drake is Canadian,...
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