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We're in the neurospace and discuss privacy internally, it's great to see laws proposed to protect people. However, when I looked to find details about the leg
by pedalpete 3y ago
We're in the neurospace and discuss privacy internally, it's great to see laws proposed to protect people.
However, when I looked to find details about the legal privacy around DNA, I see lots of stuff related to DNA in research, https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/policy-issues/Privacy#laws-regs https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/policy-issues/Privacy#..., but what about private companies protecting the DNA they are collecting?
Why is neuro more of a focus. Shouldn't we have laws that protect all bio-data? Users provide the data for their benefit. As a company, we should be able to learn from the mass of data collected on our users to continue to benefit them, but we shouldn't (we believe) be permitted to sell that data to a 3rd party which does not benefit our users.
- LorenDB 3y agoDNA is useful primarily for associating identities with people. Your mental data is arguably more sensitive as it contains your passwords, potentially damaging or incriminating information, etc. For example, a judge can't necessarily convict you because your DNA was present at a crime scene, but he can absolutely convict you if your brain has recorded a memory of you committing that crime.
- getwiththeprog 3y agoPK Dick's short story "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" is a great thought experiment into the validity of our memories. I can highly recommend a read.
- JohnFen 3y ago> Shouldn't we have laws that protect all bio-data? Yes, we should. We should have laws that protect all personal data, biological or not, but we can't even really manage to do that (in the US). So, until/unless we get there, these sorts of patchwork laws are the best we can get.