What do you perceive as being the risk to an individual by providing a DNA sample for use in research? How does that come back to potentially harm me? Other than simply valuing my privacy.
Maybe they use DNA samples to figure out weaknesses against viruses, then they can launch COVID knowing potential harm it can cause.
A third party obviously has your DNA and a name associated with it. Then it becomes an ethics question.
Do they really keep the sample anonymous? They misled donors into thinking they would get a simple answer about their ancestry yet look what they did with the data without explicit informed consent of the donor.
How about Ezekiel Emmanuel (Rahm's brother), who thinks there are too many people (not including him of course)
Or how about Yuval Harari?--look that prize up.
A person’s DNA can be planted.
If you don’t consider that potentially harming you, I guess I just don’t get that. Once it leaves your body the chain of command is broken and the donor has no clue what can happen after that.
DNA is you... The government having that info allows things like personalized genetic attacks on you and your relatives. May seem minor but if a government can come up with a disease to wipe out anyone with a specific DNA profile it’s possible. Maybe not in my lifetime but a possibility.
There’s good things as well for solving crime etc but remember... If there’s a downside, governments will exploit it.
If you use a password in an account, and it is compromised, you can create a new account with a new password.
If you surrender biometric data, and your data is compromised, you’re finished.
You can’t change your biometric data.
Who would you trust with it? The government? Some company?
No thanks.
There is nothing anonymous about the test. They know who you are, and where to send the results. So great, get a bunch to sign up. Now 10 years later they roll out new insurance plans based on your genetic predisposition to certain diseases. Sorry, Prince Caspian, you dont qualify for insurance ... or we will give you insurance but exclude certain diseases, that they already know people with a certain combination of genes have a higher probability of getting. Now, you can go see the Dr and get your COVID booster, but when you come down with Pancreatic Cancer ... oops, sorry, not covered by YOUR policy, even though your wife would qualify for treatment.
Since most people go to the doctor it would seem to be pointless to use this organization for such a conspiracy for DNA samples...one that many people are not even going to partake of.
Tend to agree with you wholeheartedly.
It has proven to be an invaluable tool to cracking even decades-old "Cold Cases"...where it used to be that only convicted felons were compiled in a database as a tool to bringing the guilty to justice.