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That's like saying it's foolish to have your photos in a database.. Or Name... because someone might misuse it.
by wolco 6y ago
That's like saying it's foolish to have your photos in a database..
Or Name... because someone might misuse it.
- tengbretson 6y agoThat very well might be the case.
- interestica 6y agoHow does this affect ancestry.ca, the Canadian wing? Is it operated separately? I suspect other laws might come into play for Canadian use data?
- danhak 6y agoCorrect. See, for example, this story about a man being arrested and jailed for a crime he didn’t commit because his photo was in a database: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/technology/facial-recognition-arrest.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/technology/facial-recogni... The implications for misuse of genetic information are even more serious.
- xadhominemx 6y ago> The implications for misuse of genetic information are even more serious. Such as?
- stanfordkid 6y agoUtilizing biomarkers that are indicative of disease progression for discriminating against massive numbers of people -- for things like employment, healthcare and the like. The thing people don't realize is that laws are highly ineffective against this sort of thing... as machines and algorithms are fed data and made to output numbers ... even the implementers don't totally understand what exactly is leading to discrimination.
- xadhominemx 6y agoThat is already illegal