“Privacy as we knew it in the past is no longer feasible… How we conventionally think of privacy is dead,” she added. Another Harvard researcher into genetics said it was “inevitable” that one’s personal genetic information would enter more and more into the public sphere. Sophia Roosth said intelligence agents were already asked to collect genetic information on foreign leaders to determine things like susceptibility to disease and life expectancy. “We are at the dawn of the age of genetic McCarthyism,” she said, referring to witch-hunts against Communists in 1950s America. What’s more, Seltzer imagined a world in which tiny robot drones flew around, the size of mosquitoes, extracting a sample of your DNA for analysis by, say, the government or an insurance firm. Invasions of privacy are “going to become more pervasive,” she predicted. “It’s not whether this is going to happen, it’s already happening… We live in a surveillance state today.”
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 04:34:46 +0000
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