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Re:23andMe to share customer gene data with GlaxoSmithKline ... by m463 on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @06:08PM (#21819975)
Would it be legal to use genetic information in advertising?

For example, advertise only to healthy people?

I think about how new privacy laws prohibit "selling" of advertising data, but there's nothing about just "sharing".

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Re:23andMe to share customer gene data with GlaxoSmithKline ... by dekhn on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @06:14PM (#21820027)
I don't know enough about the law to say whether this is legal, but I believe correlates of genetic information are already used in advertising.
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