Nature  
Volume 486 Number 7403 pp293-434  21 June 2012
http://www.nature.com/nature/current_issue.html

Editorials
Time to open up

If scientists want the public to continue to volunteer for research projects, they must learn to be a lot more forthcoming about the ways in which the information they garner will be used.

Nature | News Feature
Informed consent: A broken contract
20 June 2012

As researchers find more uses for data, informed consent has become a source of confusion. Something has to change.
Erika Check Hayden
http://www.nature.com/news/informed-consent-a-broken-contract-1.10862