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I’ve never understood the specific privacy concern I should have about my genetic code. The things I consider private in my life never surface in my biology, th
by fnordpiglet 3y ago
I’ve never understood the specific privacy concern I should have about my genetic code. The things I consider private in my life never surface in my biology, they surface in my behaviors, experiences, thoughts, associations, and other aspects of my lived life. While I don’t want insurance company to adjudicate coverage and claims from it, I don’t know what hackers or customers of illegally obtained health ordnance dna data are reasonably going to do with it that impacts me in the least. I’d love to be convinced otherwise, but at some level I almost am at the level of anonymized genetic codes should be generally available with health histories for researchers and not locked away behind privacy screens more rigorous than everything I actually wish could be kept private.
- AlbertCory 3y agoJust don't commit any crimes. Or be suspected of one.
- adolph 3y agoOr be statistically correlated to material found at one
- fnordpiglet 3y agoHas this happened?
- fnordpiglet 3y agoSeems like good advice, but I’m not sure the police are buying illegally obtained DNA sequences from hacker groups. (But I’m sure there are nations that do)
- AlbertCory 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_Killer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_Killer Cops don't need to go illegal.
- janalsncm 3y agoIt’s not illegally obtained if it is obtained with the third party doctrine.
- JohnFen 3y agoOr anger anyone powerful.
- bee_rider 3y agoThe big news article was people breaking into 23AndMe accounts to find Ashkenazi Jews. That’s pretty creepy, IMO. I mean there are obviously countries out there that would weaponize that sort of info, doubly so if you look back in the historical record. In a perfect world, nobody would worry about their ethnic or racial information leaking. If you know how to get to that world I suspect lots of people would be interested in going.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoOk. Good point. Forgot how big of asshats humans can be for a moment.
- JohnFen 3y agoMaybe that level of privacy isn't something that you worry about. That's perfectly fine. We all decide for ourselves what risks we consider acceptable. But we should also support others being able to have privacy even for those things we aren't personally worried about. It's almost certain that there are other things they don't worry about, but that you do.
- schemescape 3y agoIf there are genetic factors that predispose certain behaviors/traits, those would almost certainly be used for targeting marketing/manipulation campaigns.