2013-09-04, 02:05
A true global village: the end of privacy in so many ways
Gina Kolata's piece in The New York Times, Poking Holes in Genetic Privacy, is stirring a lot of debate. In the wake of the NSA leaks that makes sense. And genetic privacy has always been a "hot button" issue for obvious reasons, as personal genomics transforms from a futuristic projection to a ubiquitous part of our lives. It seems to me that there's a spectrum of reasonable objection here. I don't think it's a big deal if you are exposed for your "true ethnicity." Yes, if we lived in Nazi Germ
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Gina Kolata's piece in The New York Times, Poking Holes in Genetic Privacy, is stirring a lot of debate. In the wake of the NSA leaks that makes sense. And genetic privacy has always been a "hot button" issue for obvious reasons, as personal genomics transforms from a futuristic projection to a ubiquitous part of our lives. It seems to me that there's a spectrum of reasonable objection here. I don't think it's a big deal if you are exposed for your "true ethnicity." Yes, if we lived in Nazi Germ
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