Re:Ancestry.com can use your DNA to target ads
by mirimir on Monday September 07, 2015 @07:32PM
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I do get that.
But what if 23andme or Genentech starts selling people's data to health and life insurance firms? And maybe employers will want that data, just as they want credit reports etc.
There ought to be meaningful privacy protection, in my opinion.
There are also significant benefits to biological research. Most genetic variation is rare, and the effect of each of these rare variants is small, but they add up. Having access to larger datasets will allow us to be able to better correlate those variants to diseases. 23andme is already doing this with Genentech: http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2015/01/06/surpris....