Scared Your DNA Is Exposed? Then Share It, Scientists Suggest

guest · Nov 22, 2018

Scared Your DNA Is Exposed? Then Share It, Scientists Suggest
If enhancing privacy by creating a giant database of people’s DNA sounds counterintuitive, the group’s point is that it’s already too late to prevent mass exposure.
November 22, 2018
https://www.itprotoday.com/data-privacy/scared-your-dna-exposed-then-share-it-scientists-suggest

In a new paper published in the journal Science on Thursday, researchers suggest that the best way to protect genetic information might be for all Americans to deposit their data in a universal, nationwide DNA database.
“Currently, law enforcement already has potential access to millions of people’s data,” [...] “A universal system would be much easier to regulate.”

Hazel, who studies genetic privacy issues, said that the idea isn’t as radical as it sounds. In the U.S., state and federal databases hold the genetic data of more than 16.5 million people who have been arrested or convicted of a crime. Other public and private databases could grant access to the genetic details of millions more with court permission.

Hazel said having a more complete repository would offer better privacy protections. [...] And access could be regulated and controlled. Police can currently peer into open-source databases without a judge’s permission.
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“This is a very provocative proposal,” Hazel said, “But it all comes down to spurring a debate about the current system.”
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zapjb · Nov 22, 2018

Idiotic.

__Nikopol · Nov 22, 2018

For real. Just made for the Media, as he himself said.

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