Posted on 03/10/2017 10:00:17 AM PST by tekrat
It’s hard to imagine a more sensitive type of personal information than your own genetic blueprints. With varying degrees of accuracy, the four-base code can reveal bits of your family’s past, explain some of your current traits and health, and may provide a glimpse into your future with possible conditions and health problems you could face. And that information doesn’t just apply to you but potentially your blood relatives, too.
Most people would likely want to keep the results of genetic tests highly guarded—if they want their genetic code deciphered at all. But, as STAT reports, a new bill that is quietly moving through the House would allow companies to strong-arm their employees into taking genetic tests and then sharing that data with unregulated third parties as well as the employer. Employees that resist could face penalties of thousands of dollars.
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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.
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....
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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