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Re:23andMe to share customer gene data with GlaxoSmithKline ... by chr1 on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @12:45PM (#21816225)
This would be a concern if DNA was something secret like a password, but it isn't, it falls off you all the time in the form of hair and skin cells, so if there was something valuable in your DNA, your employers could get it easily anyway. And if your DNA was useful to insurers you would pay yourself for them to get it, because knowing that your risk of dying from certain disease is higher is also required for preventing that.

In general trying to keep DNA secret to prevent discrimination is a losing game, a better strategy is preventing discrimination itself, which we already have to do for DNA variations that have visible manifestation. Moreover if the number of people who need protection from discrimination increases, we'll get better at preventing it, which would be useful for the people who are being discriminated now.

Re:23andMe to share customer gene data with GlaxoSmithKline ... by Faark on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @04:42PM (#21819206)
> your employers could get it easily anyway

I really hope that would be illegal here in the EU. It being physically possible (or even easy) doesn't make it okay. Not having the dataset easily available is one safety layer to prevent discrimination. No, it sadly doesn't help in all cases. Its unlikely there will ever be something that can, unless maybe you believe in perfectly implemented government policy reeducating us or controlling our behavior.