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Re:One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Worki... by bg24 on Friday February 01, 2019 @05:03PM (#19059184)
I applaud your thinking. But in the real world, things can get ugly very very quickly as the original commenter said. Even worse, imagine your DNA results score being used as part of employment qualification checks! When the greed of $$ is involved, ethics take a backseat in almost all corporate decision making, and good willed but naive persons get trampled.
Re:One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Worki... by kilo_bravo_3 on Friday February 01, 2019 @05:12PM (#19059253)
In the US, it is already illegal for genetic information to be used as a qualification for employment.

(a) Discrimination Based on Genetic Information.--It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer--

(1) to fail or refuse to hire, or to discharge, any employee, or otherwise to discriminate against any employee with respect to the compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment of the employee, because of genetic information with respect to the employee; or

(2) to limit, segregate, or classify the employees of the employer in any way that would deprive or tend to deprive any employee of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect the status of the employee as an employee, because of genetic information with respect to the employee.

https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/gina.cfm

Re:One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Worki... by hinkley on Friday February 01, 2019 @06:44PM (#19059882)
> In the US, it is already illegal for genetic information to be used as a qualification for employment.

No.

In the US, it is currently illegal for genetic information to be used as a qualification for employment.

Your DNA never changes. Once it's on record it's on record. This isn't like prohibition where as long as you quit before the law comes into effect you are safe.

If there is ever a future time you can be punished for your DNA, the only people who can possibly be 'grandfathered' in are the ones who've avoided submitting their DNA in the first place. Everyone else can be punished after the fact.

Re:One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Worki... by yks on Friday February 01, 2019 @10:10PM (#19060780)
> If there is ever a future time you can be punished for your DNA, the only people who can possibly be 'grandfathered' in are the ones who've avoided submitting their DNA in the first place.

I don't support the point of view of the GP but in all fairness, if we come to the society where DNA is used for widespread discrimination, it will probably be semi-voluntarily collected from the majority of the citizens anyway (e.g. want to have a driver's license? submit the DNA)

Re:One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Worki... by maxerickson on Friday February 01, 2019 @10:53PM (#19060923)
If some future hell has us ruining people because of their DNA, it's not gonna be opt in. At least not for very long.
Re:One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Worki... by nickpsecurity on Friday February 01, 2019 @11:49PM (#19061159)
Most of the problems today with privacy are opt-in. There's also a national security argument for dragnet surveillance. For another potential justification, I'll just throw in a great, older movie and a good, newer one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO_x-po_Nsc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWw4V6GTyKw

Re:One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Worki... by Mirioron on Friday February 01, 2019 @05:17PM (#19059294)
Laws and governments change. They can change radically very quickly. That DNA database isn't going anywhere though.
Re:One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Worki... by number_six on Friday February 01, 2019 @05:52PM (#19059559)
It's pretty easy to not hire someone and say it was for something other than something you found in a DNA sample.

Your putting the onus on me to prove that it was explicitly the results of my test that caused me not to be hired.

Re:One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Worki... by barrkel on Friday February 01, 2019 @05:19PM (#19059313)
You are only thinking about now. Do you think things will be the same in 20 years?

Best of luck.

Re:One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Worki... by kaybe on Friday February 01, 2019 @05:47PM (#19059527)
We all need that luck.