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Estonia wants to collect the DNA of all its citizens

5 pointsby jcreiover 9 years ago

3 comments

dozzieover 9 years ago
And now imagine somebody steals all this juicy, centralized, enormously-sized biometric database.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.schneier.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;stealing_finger.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.schneier.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;stealing_fing...</a>
atmosxover 9 years ago
Another double-edged knife. Amazing things <i>can happen</i> if this data is used wisely. I don&#x27;t even think what could happen if this data falls into the wrong hands though.
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jcreiover 9 years ago
From the point of view of providing preventive medicine and lowering overall healthcare costs, this is the right way. From the point of view of this info being used by insurance companies, not so good.