August 06, 2013

Do you mind if we store your DNA data and share it with everybody?

If it's happening in EU, it'll happen in USA...

Helen Wallace, writing at Public Service Europe—“UK Building DNA database in the NHS ‘by stealth’:
“In April, the Caldicott Committee, including British government chief scientist Sir Mark Walport proposed new rules for data-sharing electronic medical records. What they failed to make transparent is that genetic information including whole genomes will be integrated into medical records in the future – as part of a plan proposed by the Wellcome Trust, of which Walport used to be director.
(activistpost.com)

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