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Easy to say, now that other kind folks have done the heavy lifting to find the problem and publish stories raising it and we've been lucky enough to stumble upo
by mgleason_3 7y ago
Easy to say, now that other kind folks have done the heavy lifting to find the problem and publish stories raising it and we've been lucky enough to stumble upon those stories. But, that of course is the problem. Awareness.
But, should it be a problem? Shouldn't we have a basic right to privacy?
We get sold on the need for police to catch "Murderers". But then its "attempted murder". Later it's "attempted violent crimes" 1). Will anyone be surprised when it starts being used by debt collectors to harass you or your relatives?
How long after that before someone figures out how to use it to efficiently ID people with early dementia and to they can target and swindle them?
1) https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/10/genetic-genealogy-dna-database-criminal-investigations/599005/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/10/genetic-...