Interesting conflict between these researchers. From Erlich [0]: "The take home message should be that identifying someone in a group of ten people requires v

Interesting conflict between these researchers. From Erlich [0]: "The take home message should be that identifying someone in a group of ten people requires very little effort. Anyone with access to even low dimensional data, such as basic demographic, can do that. This is not very surprising." "To summarize this point, the title says: “Identification of individuals by trait prediction using whole- genome sequencing data” but most of the trait predictions is carried by ethnicity of the individual (genomic PCs) rather than the trait specific SNPs." Summarizing: DNA can estimate ethnicity, which can be used to predict a range of traits, including facial structure. These results would be far more impressive if they were able to predict faces in data composed of a single ethnicity. HLI may have overstated their results, but nevertheless they raise important points about re-id. [0] http://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/09/07/185330.1 http://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/09/07/185330.1