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I personally feel that the next great privacy scandal is going to come from one of these DNA companies being hacked, or abused by law enforcement, etc. And we a
by dannykwells 8y ago
I personally feel that the next great privacy scandal is going to come from one of these DNA companies being hacked, or abused by law enforcement, etc. And we all will have seen it coming.
The issue, of course, is that unlike Facebook you can't just delete your DNA.
- flycaliguy 8y agoNot only that, but I can't stop anyone I'm related to from creating a shadow profile of me.
- dylan604 8y agoSo, just like Facebook after all?
- elcomet 8y agoI don't think there is a huge difference with Facebook. You cannot delete your face (well, you can, but at a huge cost, with facial surgery). So when your photos are leaked, you can't do much about it, deleting your Facebook account won't help here.
- Real_S 8y agoThis will be a huge. As bad as I will feel for the victims, I hope that it causes us to take genetic information security seriously.