Future generations are going to look at this generation’s laxity with genetic data and privacy in the sane way we look back at smoking, Jim Crow laws and fossil fuels.
You can’t change your genetic data like you can a password and once it gets out it not only affects you both your relatives and your offspring.
You carry a gene for a chronic disease that’s inherited? Now insurance companies know that about you, your kids and grandkids.
Unbelievable privacy self own.
That’s only such an issue in the topsy-turvy USA world, where health and basic security must be bought. More likely future generations will look back (as we do looking on) with incredulity that only the wealthy could be well, that people would go to early graves with curable diseases because they couldn’t afford treatment, couldn’t change jobs without losing access to life-sustaining care, had to choose between food and insulin, and that seniors lived in abject poverty.
Dare Obasanjo
David Mitchell 