Comment on 23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Would you let government collect DNA from people when they are born? Absolutely not, bit I will definitely give it to a silicon valley start up who will then proceed to sell it and have it stolen.
No I don’t see how government vs private makes any difference.
A baby isn’t capable of informed consent, so their DNA shouldn’t be collected unless it’s required for some medical reason (and then the sample should be immediately destroyed and no records kept).
I can very easily imagine a 23 year old liberal virgin technocratic atheist saying that DNA should be collected at birth to solve crimes. These are also the same people who likely support euthanizing disabled people if they “consent” to it.
Liberal? The “personal freedom from government” folks? I think you’re thinking of someone who is pro authoritarian. I could 100% see a tankie, fascist, or right-wing authoritarian agreeing with that.
Liberal as in American liberal.
aelwero@lemmy.world 9 months ago
If you’re allowing a corporation to have it, you are giving de facto consent for government to collect it with zero regard for your rights whatsoever.
They have the greatest ability to buy it, the greatest ability to steal it, and a fairly unique ability to confiscate it.
pdxfed@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yeah but what about great aunt Marge? Don’t you want to know if it was Scotland or Denmark?!?
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Good point with that last sentence.