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In reply to the discussion: Remember all those posts on DU promoting genetic testing? [View all]Hugin
(33,222 posts)I will admit finding an easily treatable, but, often undiagnosed significant lifespan shortening genetic medical condition by undergoing DNA analysis. So, I may be biased. There currently is some small benefit to the sampled from the process. In another potential scenario of DNA data collection, a less ethical company would set up sampling in public restrooms with a small print EULA (which nobody would read) posted on the door giving them complete ownership of anything anyone left there to do with whatever the company supplying the restroom wished. Including any DNA information contained within it. In this scenario, there is no benefit to the sampled.
I share your alarm and concern at the direction the legal control of these archives is moving and the secrecy surrounding it.
Another thing I've learned has me questioning the balance of nature vs nurture I had always assumed. It may be slanted more toward nature than I had always believed and affect things I used to believe to be driven solely by upbringing and acculturation.