UC San Diego urges relational consent

- UC San Diego researchers argued that digital-health consent should be treated as an ongoing relationship, not a one-off checkbox during onboarding. - Their work calls for clearer dialogue, granular controls, and continued user clarity about data use across longitudinal health records. - The recommendation pushes product teams to build consent as part of UX—settings, exports, and in-app explanations—not buried legal fine print. (today.ucsd.edu)