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A hacker can swap my name + address with a murderer right now without access to my DNA. All of the hypotheticals in this thread (except for the CRISPR future s
by mFixman 6y ago
A hacker can swap my name + address with a murderer right now without access to my DNA.
All of the hypotheticals in this thread (except for the CRISPR future superweapon) can happen right now without the need of a DNA leak: the US had an explicit system of racial discrimination encodes in the law until the mid 1960s without the need of 23AndMe. My insurer already has data about my genetic diseases and pre-conditions from blood tests I did as a baby.
I want to be worried about the leak, but I really cannot think of any consequence that's not a crazy sci-fi hypothetical or something that can be done more easily without access to the DNA database.