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Re:House Republicans would let employers demand workers’ gen... by jacquesm on Friday March 10, 2017 @10:05PM (#13843963)
I strongly suspect that this is a rearguard fight and that - barring something along the lines of a French revolution - sooner or later this will all be made acceptable and what few jobs will be left are going to come with mandatory genetic testing, assuming it isn't done at birth and made part of your files which are either made public or will be accessible in the same way credit records are today. Medical privacy is on the way out.
Re:House Republicans would let employers demand workers’ gen... by M_Grey on Friday March 10, 2017 @10:19PM (#13844019)
I think you'd be right, but I'd guess that we'll be failing as a civilization before the worst privations can come to pass. War, chaos, and dissolution is more likely our future, fueled by climate change and global conflict.