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		njovin on July 23, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles ... This is not meant to be confrontational in any way: what are the risks of having your genome exposed?

jrumbut on July 23, 2020 [–]

Primarily my concern is what it will be possible to infer about a person (or what some people think they can infer) from the genome not just now but in 40 years.

The history of science and politics are filled with ugly chapters of people committing bad acts based on the ancestry of other people.

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