I attended a conference couple years ago where Oxford Nanopore gave a talk about their sequencing technology. Their sequencing machine is now available for sele

I attended a conference couple years ago where Oxford Nanopore gave a talk about their sequencing technology. Their sequencing machine is now available for select labs that applied for their early access program. While there are still a lot of problems with the technology itself in terms of error rate and data handling, I am a bit wary of the potential impact on privacy. Imagine giant vacuums in public places that sucks up, samples the air, and sequence any DNA that is found. We can potentially track people this way. But on the other hand, I can also see this technology collecting vital information in terms of spread of diseases or ecological data.