New bill would let companies force workers to get genetic tests, share results

ARS Technica ^ | 3/10/2017 | BETH MOLE

[rlmorel]

Right you are.

But, to be more precise, they aren’t actually out there in the Internet “Cloud”, medial facilities generally have these things under their own control where the security can be positively nailed down, but they make these things accessible FROM the Internet with the right permissions.

If a hospital has poor security...that is a problem.

[trebb]

Sounds bad - still much more needed and even then, unless they have a veto-proof quorum, it might go the way of all the previous "attempts" to repeal Obamacare.

The question is, would folks on our side actually rise up in protest or just roll over????

Kind of like, do those who raise a stink here donate to FR or to political candidates that they claim to believe in....

[polymuser]

So many people are now paying to give away their DNA - to learn “What genealogy am I?” - it blows me away. Like so many gave away facial recognition to Facebook.

[FrogMom]

Does this not violate the 4th?

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

[TheNext]

DNA goes both ways. Find someone with top clean DNA. If it yours, sell it. Do online tests with clean DNA, with your name attached. Let marketing sell your results.

[Verginius Rufus]

That's the problem with the saliva--they have to take your word for it.

A while back, the comic strip Pickles had a series on DNA tests. The dog licked Opal's vial while she wasn't looking. When the results came back, she was one-third Irish, one-third Scandinavian, and one-third English spaniel.