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A government could decide they don't like a particular phenotype and decide to visit people based on a database. Something similar happened with the harmless "w

• thomassmith65 2y ago
  That's just today. We might live to see targeted diseases. My fear, in the current era, is to be included in countless virtual 'police lineups'. The higher the availability of my DNA, the higher the chance of a false positive affecting me.
  • pests 2y ago
    I read a book years ago that I can't remember the name that your comment reminded me of, although achieved a little differently. In the book a global pandemic broke out but didn't effect Muslims. How was this possible? A in-world marketing campaign promoted "Mecca Water", in which the antidote / preventative was delivered and the Muslim world was made to believe it was holy / blessed / a pilgrimage experience to consume it. I feel it might have been a product of the post-911 world but I did find it interesting and also fear the future as it seems possible today, I'm sure some are trying.
• BugsJustFindMe 2y ago
  The public already has enough information to substantially harm large groups if they want. A simple example being property ownership databases, which are often publicly available on the internet, can be referenced against culturally-suggestive first and last names to find the domestic whereabouts of large numbers of pick-your-group.