{"id":387505,"date":"2018-12-02T20:45:12","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T19:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-scientists-urge-world-to-share-dna-in-centralized-database-for-your-protection\/"},"modified":"2018-12-02T20:45:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T19:45:12","slug":"prison-planet-com-scientists-urge-world-to-share-dna-in-centralized-database-for-your-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-scientists-urge-world-to-share-dna-in-centralized-database-for-your-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Scientists Urge World To Share DNA In Centralized Database \u201cFor Your Protection\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-11-28\/scientists-urge-world-share-dna-centralized-database-your-protection\"><strong>Zero Hedge<\/strong><\/a><br \/>December 2, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Between the ever-encroaching eye of Big Brother, the imminent events of pre-crime AI, the exposure of tech behemoth privacy contempt, and the inevitable \u2018hack\u2019 of any and everything online, it is perhaps understandable that your average joe is more than a little nervous \u2013 no matter how romantic the idea of discovering you are 1\/1024th native American \u2013 to hand over their DNA to the next tom, dick or dotcom wanting to tell you if you\u2019re lactose intolerant or when you\u2019ll get diabetes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/national-dna-database.png?itok=M413Q9D9\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/national-dna-database.png?itok=M413Q9D9\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/national-dna-database.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/national-dna-database.png?itok=M413Q9D9 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"279\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"87a625ea-5b86-4f61-9a37-fc75dddbe2b9\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>But, luckily for all of us skeptics, the clever people have a solution to our plebian ignorance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-11-22\/scared-your-dna-is-exposed-then-share-it-scientists-suggest\"><em>As Bloomberg reports<\/em><\/a>, a group of medical researchers have a counter-intuitive proposal for shielding people\u2019s most intimate personal data from prying eyes.<\/p>\n<p><em><u><strong>Share more of it, they say. A lot more of it<\/strong><\/u><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/api\/embed\/iframe?id=7b338367-5a3c-470d-8bb4-90e3f8bc2f7d\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-11-22\/scared-your-dna-is-exposed-then-share-it-scientists-suggest\">Bloomberg\u2019s Kristen Brown writes <\/a>that in a new paper published in the journal Science on Thursday, <u><em><strong>researchers suggest that the best way to protect genetic information might be for all Americans to deposit their data in a universal, nationwide DNA database.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/u><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Concerns about who can gain access to genetic information gathered by consumer genetic-testing websites has been on the climb since April, when police made an arrest in a decades-old serial-murder case in California. <strong>To ensnare the alleged Golden State Killer, investigators trawled an open-source database popular with genealogy hobbyists<\/strong> to search for relatives of possible suspects. Police found matches, and then\u00a0<a title=\"Killer App? DNA Site Had Unwitting Role in Golden State Hunt (1)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-05-29\/killer-app-dna-site-had-unwitting-role-in-golden-state-manhunt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">got their man<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The California case made clear that<strong> consumers have little control over where their genetic information<\/strong> \u2014 and by extension, that of their family members \u2014 can wind up, a potential privacy nightmare.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cCurrently, law enforcement already has potential access to millions of people\u2019s data,\u201d <\/strong>said James Hazel, a researcher at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/scientists-urge-world-to-share-dna-in-centralized-database-for-your-protection.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zero HedgeDecember 2, 2018 Between the ever-encroaching eye of Big Brother, the imminent events of pre-crime AI, the exposure of tech behemoth privacy contempt, and the inevitable \u2018hack\u2019 of any and everything online, it is perhaps understandable that your average joe is more than a little nervous \u2013 no matter how romantic the idea of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-387505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}