Yes, consent is very difficult to obtain. Dr. Murakami Wood already pointed this out in his talk, and that seems to me to be exactly right, that the notion that we could somehow gain consent.... The notion of consent is really important. It's really significant, and there are particular ways in which it could be sought, as Dr. Parsons pointed out, but it becomes increasingly difficult to obtain consent in the current data collection, data analysis environment within which we're living right now.
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