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I mean, DNA traces are being left everywhere humans go. It will eventually be trivial to sample and sequence DNA. At that point, anyone could pick up your DNA t
by intotheabyss 6y ago
I mean, DNA traces are being left everywhere humans go. It will eventually be trivial to sample and sequence DNA. At that point, anyone could pick up your DNA traces in public and sequence them. I think we'll need to come to terms with the fact that DNA privacy will be non-existent in only a few decades.
- slg 6y agoI was just discussing this on here a couple weeks back [1]. Giving your DNA to a corporation is only a concern in the short to medium term. In the long term there will be nothing you can do to stop a malicious organization from taking your DNA. I asked what exactly were the negative repercussions that one can expect in that time frame from losing privacy regarding one's DNA and I'm not particularly worried about any of the answers. This news wouldn't yet change that even if ancestry.com had my DNA data. [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23923087 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23923087