Should you be scared that employers would be able to find out from your genome structure that you carry the Huntington’s disease gene and fire you? Can your genetic predilection for Alzheimers or breast cancer be held against you?
In a perfect world, the answer to these questions would be no. And, in fact, Americans – dependent on insurance in a country where the cost of care is sky high – are more at risk than Brits to abuse. Which makes it unsurprising that most of the worst case scenarios put forward by privacy experts revolve around insurance companies denying coverage.
But to focus solely on the privacy concerns of individual genome sequencing is to miss the point.
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