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Duh!
EVERYTHING is an invasion of privacy these days.
I will not be long before we hear that the gov’t is making ObamaCare medical files available for ‘research purposes’.
Heh, all your genes are belong to us!
“hand over their DNA sequences along with details of their lives in a questionnaire to build a giant database”
Please pick up the white courtesy phone.
:)
Yeah?
What. Would it be better for the government to do it?
Big data is great and we, humanity, can learn a lot from it.
Combine this with the huge amounts of information people are VOLUNTARILY providing through “social media” (please read...data entry), the huge databases the ancestry search folk have, and voila............
Think this will be used to actually ‘CURE’ a disease? Doubt it.
Just heard that 2/3 of cancers are not relate-able to any causal factors currently known. Age, genetics, environment, etc....nit. Simply bad luck.
There is more than enough computing power and storage and search capabilities to combine all this information into stored searchable form.
how can this be good?
KYPD
Anything stopping you from fudging enough check boxes on the questionaire (including your name) to make it hard to tag the data to the recipient?
I wonder how much of this information is combined with the genetic testing done routinely for newborns now.
If you couldn’t figure out those DNA tests on Ancestry.com, etc. weren’t about the data base, you deserve what you get. And if you don’t submit a DNA test, one of your dingy relatives probably did and they’ll trace you on the lineage. It’s not bad enough your medical records are now on some gov computer but doctors are asking if you have guns in the house. Some banks won’t let you cash a check without getting your fingerprint. Of course, they’re tracing texts, keystrokes, phone calls, scanning mail and if you bought milk at the grocery store, etc. Everything is about Big Brother.
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“On November 22, 2013, after not hearing from 23andMe for six months, the FDA ordered 23andMe to stop marketing its Saliva Collection Kit and Personal Genome Service (PGS) as 23andMe had not demonstrated that they have “analytically or clinically validated the PGS for its intended uses” and the “FDA is concerned about the public health consequences of inaccurate results from the PGS device”. As of December 2, 2013, 23andMe has stopped all advertisements for its PGS test but is still selling the product. As of December 5, 2013, 23andMe is only selling raw genetic data and ancestry-related results.” - Wikipedia