08-07-2024, 06:24 PM
The data is immensely valuable, and is being sold on to the pharmaceutical industry among others. Which is a good thing, it may enable researchers to devise new therapies that help others, at a massive profit, of course, to the companies themselves.
But the threat that may exist is the use other countries might put that data to. China for instance uses genetic data for all kinds of programmes, including identifying menbers of families belonging to groups they wish to assimilate and control. They also design therapies to tackle disease and illness, and some with less benign purposes to be used in their defence industry. As does America.
It is an interest conundrum for the individual, and for modern nation states and corporations. Especially in these days when cyber wars are well underway between competitors. When health based establishments are targets for just that kind of focus.
All because we are curious creatures interested in our family connections...
But the threat that may exist is the use other countries might put that data to. China for instance uses genetic data for all kinds of programmes, including identifying menbers of families belonging to groups they wish to assimilate and control. They also design therapies to tackle disease and illness, and some with less benign purposes to be used in their defence industry. As does America.
It is an interest conundrum for the individual, and for modern nation states and corporations. Especially in these days when cyber wars are well underway between competitors. When health based establishments are targets for just that kind of focus.
All because we are curious creatures interested in our family connections...