California found to be harvesting newborn DNA for decades without parental consent -
Every individual who is born in a hospital in California now has a sample of their DNA stolen and kept in a state-run database. What used to take a court order now happens regularly, and the disturbing invasion of privacy takes place with hardly a whimper of protest from the nation’s most populous state.
‘In the wrong hands, DNA can be used as a tool for genocide or targeted killings’.
Think deleting your Facebook profile is hard? Try deleting your genomic data -
The good news about that way-too-personal Instagram post you did at 3 AM the other night? You can (pretty much) delete it. But deleting your DNA data once you share it? Well, that’s basically impossible.....