VitaminPb
VitaminPb t1_iqooz71 wrote
Reply to comment by __neone in The era of fast, cheap genome sequencing is here by Sariel007
But I can guarantee you that within a few years of it becoming common, some police group/politician will decide that all those test sequences will be stored in a national database to “solve crimes” or “provide medical information”, just like everybody who is arrested or raped or joins the military has their DNA swabs taken and put into the criminal databases now. (See the recent case in San Francisco of the woman who was raped having her DNA used to arrest her later for crimes.)
VitaminPb t1_iqok3es wrote
Reply to comment by __neone in The era of fast, cheap genome sequencing is here by Sariel007
People should be rightly afraid of this data being weaponized. Imagine insurance being denied to you for certain conditions (such as a specific type of cancer) because of your DNA?
(And nationalized medicine would also use this to determine if you should be treated based on other things in your DNA.)
VitaminPb t1_iqojpsr wrote
Reply to comment by Goobamigotron in The era of fast, cheap genome sequencing is here by Sariel007
A sequence doesn’t tell you what each pair is doing with the other pairs, just what it is.
VitaminPb t1_ir7xzu8 wrote
Reply to comment by Shot-Job-8841 in Russian Scientists Propose Plan to Launch Huge Advertisements Into Orbit Over Cities by kelev11en
I would like him better. I’d still hate him, just not as much.