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Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Consumer DNA::GSK will pay the DNA testing company $20 million for non-exclusive access to genetic data.
Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Consumer DNA::GSK will pay the DNA testing company $20 million for non-exclusive access to genetic data.
The real dystopian horror is when these genetics companies start selling to insurance companies. Think about it:
“I’m sorry we aren’t covering this cancer claim with our health insurance product because you are genetically predisposed to it”
We need legislation now to prevent genetic discrimination.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_Information_Nondiscrimination_Act
For more information please refer to the 1997 documentary ‘Gattaca’
Society is really doing its darndest to turn all the dystopian cyberpunk worlds into reality huh
We do have legislation to protect genetic information, what we need is to prevent the gathering and distribution of this information in the first place because those laws go away the second someone is positioned to make a shit ton of money from it.
Someone never saw Gattaca.
Laws against that have already been passed. No one’s allowed to do it.
The problem is, that the law is not absolute. Neither in it’s writing nor it’s application.
Large companies regularly break the law (especially data protection) and face very little consequences. Either because they can afford a staff of lawyers to find and build loopholes, or through schmoozing with the right desicion makers. Paying a fine of 20 million is not much when you made 20 billion (20 thousand million) in profit.
Even more so, very large companies (think Facebook or Google) hold enough political power to influence or even change laws.
Nothing you just doom and gloom said changes the simple fact (it is in writing) that it’s illegal.
You are correct. It is illegal.
I dunno. That’s all super expected.
To me the dystopian part is millions of people with no personality needing to send spit to a black box private company so they can get a letter back telling them how special they are.