Comment by mensetmanusman
Comment by mensetmanusman 3 days ago
“Nearly every baby born in the U.S. has blood drawn in the immediate hours after their birth, allowing the baby to be tested for a panel of potentially life-threatening inherited disorders. This is a vital public health program, enabling early treatment of newborns with genetic disorders; for them, it can be the difference between a healthy life and an early death.
But recent news suggests that police are seeking access to these newborn blood samples in criminal investigations. Such use of this trove of genetic material — to hunt for evidence that could implicate a child’s relative in a crime — endangers public trust in this vital health program and threatens all Americans’ right to genetic privacy.”
All of our new babies had heel stick blood drawn, won’t the government be the eventual competitor of 23 and me (since Americans don’t care too much about privacy).
https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/police-are-usin...
My most radical political opinion is that we need a right to privacy enshrined in a constitutional amendment.
And it needs to be robust enough to prevent the government from subpoenaing data collected by private companies.