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This wild, unfounded fantasy completely misses the point: genetic privacy is fundamentally unlike other types of private information. It is trivially easy for
by hyperbovine 7y ago
This wild, unfounded fantasy completely misses the point: genetic privacy is fundamentally unlike other types of private information. It is trivially easy for someone to collect your genetic information if they really want to, completely legally and without your consent. They could, for example, obtain bits of the multitude of genetic material you spread around your environment simply by existing -- chewing gum, hair, cigarette butts, poop. Or, just look at a few close relatives of yours who overshared everything on some online database. And these are just the obvious ways.
- rubber_duck 7y agoThe ways in which this data can be abused (eg. prescreening for insurance, loans, etc.) doesn't line up with someone going out and hunting identifiable DNA samples to build a database. It does line up with self submitted/self funded database - you are basically paying to get in a DB that can be used to discriminate against you - it almost seems comical
- throwaway2048 7y agohaving access to a vast, identified DB of DNA is a lot different than hiring someone to follow millions and millions of people to capture their DNA.
- novaRom 7y agoAs someone said in a comment above, blood samples of all people born in CA (and probably in many other locations) are stored centrally, so there is a non-zero chance their DNA info is leaking to foreign databases. I highly recommend to watch "yt! How to Survive the 21st Century Davos 2020". Harari makes very important statements related to this discussion.