It seems Mormons have been storing specific DNA genome maps for individuals on the ancestry database. Some portion of that was bought by Ancestry.com and here comes the judge. (Wired: Your Relative’s DNA Could Turn You Into a Suspect)
It's not that it could turn you into a suspect but rather, for that guy, it already did.
Here's the beauty part: the guy the cops interrogated didn't 'deposit' the DNA but rather his father had done it and that's what led them to this guy. The crime was murder. He didn't do it. They DNA did not match, they know he did not do it now.
Maybe you thought the sex doll was creepy but, for me, the sex doll is stupid so don't buy one but this public-access DNA is creepy like every slimy thing you ever imagined.
This is the same thing the Google exec wants for his longevity research. It's likely valid such research could be immensely interesting but there are zero controls on any of this and, what do you know, as soon as someone makes a database, cops are all over it. Their assumed right to a violation of most intimate privacy is an egregious overstepping of the boundaries of protection against search and seizure.
You all seriously need to get cracking on an ethics board of some nature because this stuff is in running Casey Jones flat-out and he is definitely not watching his speed.
There's no change to the proposal for an ethics board as it requires scientists and theologians, really good ones. The danger of such a board is they may become Inquisitors and it's happened before in history. Nevertheless, we have seen Wild West also and that ends up with a lot of dead Indians. Presumably this ethics board will be somewhere in the middle.
Call it hysteria to be concerned about such matters if you like but you saw what happened with all the personal information on Facebook and Google+. Those CEOs rolled over for the government dollars faster than two-dollar whores.
It's not that it could turn you into a suspect but rather, for that guy, it already did.
Here's the beauty part: the guy the cops interrogated didn't 'deposit' the DNA but rather his father had done it and that's what led them to this guy. The crime was murder. He didn't do it. They DNA did not match, they know he did not do it now.
Maybe you thought the sex doll was creepy but, for me, the sex doll is stupid so don't buy one but this public-access DNA is creepy like every slimy thing you ever imagined.
This is the same thing the Google exec wants for his longevity research. It's likely valid such research could be immensely interesting but there are zero controls on any of this and, what do you know, as soon as someone makes a database, cops are all over it. Their assumed right to a violation of most intimate privacy is an egregious overstepping of the boundaries of protection against search and seizure.
You all seriously need to get cracking on an ethics board of some nature because this stuff is in running Casey Jones flat-out and he is definitely not watching his speed.
There's no change to the proposal for an ethics board as it requires scientists and theologians, really good ones. The danger of such a board is they may become Inquisitors and it's happened before in history. Nevertheless, we have seen Wild West also and that ends up with a lot of dead Indians. Presumably this ethics board will be somewhere in the middle.
Call it hysteria to be concerned about such matters if you like but you saw what happened with all the personal information on Facebook and Google+. Those CEOs rolled over for the government dollars faster than two-dollar whores.
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