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Re:China’s gene giant harvests data from millions of women w... by akudha on Thursday July 08, 2021 @06:29AM (#27770222)
Didn’t U.S pharma companies used to sell drugs overseas that is banned on U.S soil? I don’t know if that is still the case.

While collecting data like fingerprints etc is bad, collecting DNA is on whole another level. Imagine using it for immigration purposes for example. Or the govt makes you get a license to have kids (like marriage license today) based on DNA traits. These things might sound comical today, but the social score thing sounded comical too, until it became a reality

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Re:China’s gene giant harvests data from millions of women w... by eru on Thursday July 08, 2021 @11:39PM (#27780256)
> Didn’t U.S pharma companies used to sell drugs overseas that is banned on U.S soil? I don’t know if that is still the case.

Well everything that's not approved by the FDA (yet), but already approved somewhere else would fall into this category.

That's hardly a black mark against those companies.

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Re:China’s gene giant harvests data from millions of women w... by baybal2 on Thursday July 08, 2021 @06:37AM (#27770271)
Genetic disease screening before marriage, and fetal deformity screening been mandatory in China for decades.
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