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I think the worst example of this that comes to mind was the video by Veritasium on genome sequencing, which was just a glorified ad for those companies, and co
by gopiandcode 5y ago
I think the worst example of this that comes to mind was the video by Veritasium on genome sequencing, which was just a glorified ad for those companies, and completely glossed over the privacy concerns (I mean, literally every interview that he had about the topic was with a person who had a monetary incentive to downplay the consequences).
I thought it was particularly funny that he chose the running case study for the video as the use of genomic data to catch a serial killer (a real won't someone think about the children moment), but somehow "forgot" to mention that the killer was a police officer, and thus would have also had access to any genomic data available to the police, and potentially have abused it to avoid detection, find more victims etc.