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I wouldn't care if someone did a racial scan to a group involving me to find a murderer of a 13 year old. Fuck child murderers.
Maybe you like your privacy being violated but the rest of us don't
i get that you think your dna is private. really, i do.
but you broadcast it 24/7. it is only a matter of time until the entire planet is easily mapped genetically. we're half way there now, and a huge chunk of those people 'did not opt in'. a human can be mapped in minutes, if not seconds.
you send your genetic code out into the open 24 hours a day 7 days a week in every space you occupy and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it.
i understand not wanting that information used against you, hence all the genetic laws.... but it is public. your dna is not going to be some secret you get to keep in perpetuity any more than your hair color or marital status.
Purely from a technical standpoint I'm wondering what you're referring to here. Most of my work is DNA sequencing using different techniques and while we can do it blisteringly fast if necessary it still takes at minimum a few hours to isolate dna, prep the dna for sequencing and then running for 24 hours followed by data analysis. That's for bacterial DNA, I don't have experience with sequencing human genomes but I imagine it is more complicated than bacteria. But, I haven't kept up with literature on this subject lately so now I'm wondering if I've missed some breakthrough technique that speeds up the process to minutes.