The next time your privacy is invaded might not involve text messages, web browsing histories, or hidden cameras—it could involve the very stuff that makes you you. It’s time to start worrying about keeping your genetic information private.
As genome sequencing becomes cheaper and as governments, researchers, doctors, and consumers find more reasons to sequence and store entire genomes, people are increasingly worrying about who will have access to them, and what they’ll do with them.
Already, researchers can often determine who it belongs to based on publicly-available genome databases and some basic Googling.
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