The selling and renting of your information is routine, it’s happening all the time, and people can create a biography of you.

Lee Tien

Categorized in : Tech

The genome isn't just about you -- it contains information about your parents, your siblings, and your own progeny, so from a privacy standpoint, DNA data is a far more sensitive kind of health information than a sports injury, and it challenges our conventional norms of consent because you're effectively making decisions about other people's DNA.