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> What privacy risk, exactly? People will eventually be identified individually, as inevitably as the people in the AOL search leak years ago. Then they -- an
by rectang 9y ago
> What privacy risk, exactly?
People will eventually be identified individually, as inevitably as the people in the AOL search leak years ago. Then they -- and their blood relatives -- will be associated with negative health traits.
And then, companies will discriminate -- in hiring, in insurance... anywhere they can. Because it will be financially advantageous to individual companies even though it is detrimental to society as a whole. Because companies are amoral organisms and it is folly to expect them to behave otherwise.
- jghn 9y agoWe're probably no more than a year or two away from a sequenced genome being considered PHI for exactly this reason.