Covid testing firm ‘selling swabs carrying customers’ DNA’ to third parties
In the article there is a quote, “There is no personal data more sensitive than our DNA.“<p>This seems a bogus assertion to me. I can imagine many diagnostic health test results that would be more sensitive to leak than DNA (e.g., STD and drug tests).<p>DNA sequencing is eventually going to be so cheap and ubiquitous that it will happen to everyone anyway.<p>Having published my own results (<a href="https://enki.org/2017/10/17/publishing-my-genome/" rel="nofollow">https://enki.org/2017/10/17/publishing-my-genome/</a>), I really don’t buy into the idea that DNA is the most personal data that can be leaked.<p>(Nevertheless, there should be more obvious warnings to customers about how their data will be monetized.)<p>Edit: I think I failed to make clear that while I agree that DNA is "personal" data, I don't think it is the most "sensitive" personal data. If I had an identical twin and he released his DNA, I would not care. If I had syphilis and my test results were leaked, I would be upset about that.