i care more about my amazon password leaking than anyone having my irrevocably unchangeable dna. why worry about it?
Well first off it isn’t just you. It is your family as well. Maybe your cousin is more privacy minded and doesn’t appreciate it. Did you get their consent before you spit?
Secondly if you can’t think of how this could be misused you have a failure of imagination. We already know that a list of people with Jewish background leaked and it is an open question what happens next with that, but I highly doubt anything good. Maybe other minorities will be targeted next? Roma for example or the autistic. It doesn’t even have to be nightmarish like terrorism and tailored germs it could be boring oppression.
i get your fear, really, i do. ive never said it couldnt be abused. im saying dna is not private. its the worlds longest username.
it is a finite dataset. it will be inevitably be mapped across the entire planet, and guess what, it will be public.
you want to approach the Use of this data, go crazy. that is an important task.
i am personally not going to go around pretending my code is special or valuable or not publicly available.
you can do you, but at some point regardless of any activity on your part, you will be on the graph.
Right so just because something might happen eventually doesn’t absolve anyone of what we do today.
It is already understood that you don’t really have a right to privacy decades after your death. If someone wants to map out my DNA and sell it they can when I am dead and my kids are dead and my grandkids are dead with my blessing.
