Here’s a weird and slightly scary story for you: House Intelligence Committee member Jason Crow (D-CO) told the audience at the Aspen Security Forum Friday that genetic tests like the ones offered by 23andMe could be a security threat. One could be hacked from 23andMe and used to create a bio-weapon that is personalized against you.
It is possible to use weapons against entire ethnic groups, or even food. Great. This is what I thought, innocently trying find my ancestors’ origins.
#China’s military is almost certainly developing biological weapons targeting specific ethnic groups. Now, it’s possible to design a bioweapon to be used against a specific individual: https://t.co/zXJKRsMLk2. The? #CCPThese are the best weapons to assassinate your opponents #DNA weapons?
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Crow is a former Army Ranger, who has served in three tours of service in Iraq and Afghanistan. He believes that Americans have too much faith they will give their DNA information to companies, without realizing the dangers.
Young folks actually have very little expectation of privacy, that’s what the polling and the data show.
People can very quickly spit into cups and then email it to 23andMe. They will get some really fascinating data about who they are. Guess what? It turns out that their DNA is owned now by a private corporation. It can be sold off with very little intellectual property protection or privacy protection and we don’t have legal and regulatory regimes to deal with that.
Still not afraid? Crow isn’t finished:
Weapons are being developed and tested that can target particular people.
That’s what this is, where you can actually take someone’s DNA, you know, their medical profile, and you can target a biological weapon that will kill that person or take them off the battlefield or make them inoperable.
As far as I know, I don’t have too many mortal enemies, but I better hope I’m right because I sent in my 23andMe test years ago. My wife rejected it and called me an idiot for sharing my entire genetic sequence with someone else. Guess who’s laughing now?
She now points out that over the last two years we’ve seen conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory turn out to be… true. Even Anthony Fauci is now admitting that maybe the Wuhan virus came out of a lab; if you’d said that a year ago you’d be promptly booted off social media. DNA-customized weapons were at the core of James Bond’s latest film. You have no choice but to live.For goodness sakes. Now it’s real.
Iowa Republican Senator Joni Ernst was present at the Forum as well. She decided to terrorize us by revealing more uses of DNA bio-weapons, specifically to attack food supply.
There are many other problems that can be caused by insecurity about food. There’s a number of ways we can look at biological weapons and the need to make sure not only are we securing human beings, but then also the food that will sustain us.
23andMe repeatedly stated that it doesn’t sell customers data. In addition, industry heavyweights Ancestry, Habit, Helix, 123andMe and MyHeritage all signed on to a policy called Privacy Best Practices for Consumer Genetic Testing Services which details “when personally identifiable and anonymous genetic information can be shared with law enforcement (without a warrant) and other third parties,” according to Gizmodo. Unfortunately, there’s no legal oversight or law, so we’re basically just trusting them.
It can be scary to use technology. Representative Crow and Senator Ernst’s observations are very eye-opening. Let’s hope the good guys can stay one step ahead of the bad guys.
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