Comments on: Article About Genetic Testing and Privacy at Salon.com http://www.thegeneticgenealogist.com/2009/02/17/article-about-genetic-testing-and-privacy-at-saloncom/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=article-about-genetic-testing-and-privacy-at-saloncom Adding DNA to the Genealogist's Toolbox Sun, 05 May 2013 06:30:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Adam http://www.thegeneticgenealogist.com/2009/02/17/article-about-genetic-testing-and-privacy-at-saloncom/comment-page-1/#comment-3634 Adam Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:26:42 +0000 http://www.thegeneticgenealogist.com/?p=720#comment-3634 I agree that such companies do have incentives to keep information private. However, I would not count of data protection laws to prevents breaches. Its no secret that the government has a huge interested the area of genetic testing as a means of keeping tabs on people. We have already seen biometric data be introduced to passports.

With the ‘anti-terror’ laws that are supposedly in the interests of the public we have surrended our right to privacy and data protection. It is not security breaches that concern me on this topic therefore… but what the government may decide to do behind closed doors without informing people in the interest of ‘national security’.

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