Wednesday Writs: DNA and Privacy Rights Edition
It’s important to safeguard DNA & privacy rights-you want them there for you, if you ever find yourself in the crosshairs of the system
Tagged: DNA
23andMe Cashes In on Customer’s Data
Those Terms of Service agreements are not there for the fun of it, folks. Read them. Otherwise folks not names you will make lots of profit off of you, or things about you, without including you.
What Does it Mean that Elizabeth Warren has a Native American Ancestor?
What is a race of people made of?
Familial DNA Continues to Crack Cold Cases Around the Country
There appears no end in sight for this trend of solving cold cases – a light at the end of the tunnel for families of the victims, and an oncoming train for the perpetrators.
23andMe to Share DNA data with GlaxoSmithKline
23andMe is sharing customer data with drug makers. They are allowed to do so under their user agreement. But like the Facebook outrage over personal data, how many didnt read the fine print and now will regret their decision?
New DNA Tech Closes Another Cold Case
DNA nabs another killer, as the criminal justice world wonders, who’s next?
For The Cold Case Files
Does the Fourth Amendment allow law enforcement to gather an arrestee’s genetic sequence and compare it with a large FBI database of genetic material gathered from old, unsolved crimes? [Continued at NaPP]
At My Real Job: DNA and the Death Penalty
This month’s Cato Unbound is especially interesting to me because it discusses how to integrate new facts into an old public policy debate: Now that we (sometimes) have DNA evidence, what does it tell...
Pop Quiz
From Foreign Policy: Which country has the highest percentage of its population in a DNA database? The answer, which may surprise you, is below the fold:
