I think:
That if the police take your DNA as part of an identification sweep, and it is used for just that limited purpose, I could care less. Unless I'm Guilty!
If the police use that sample of your DNA and do additional medical testing to see if your genes sequence for a possible condition that might require specialized medical attention, or alert you or me to a possible bad drug interraction potential, well I'd be kind of happy to give them a sample any time they asked. (I might even go try to find them so I could "volunteer"!)
If the samples got sent on to my insurance company and were used as the basis for them to raise my health insurance rates, well I'd be kinda' ticked off. But if my dna was used by my insurance company to make sure the medications I was being prescribed were both safe and cost effective, well I wouldn't complain about that. Now how could I trust my insurance company with doing the right thing and not the bad thing with that DNA info??
I guess the only way would be if the testing was performed by a reputable source that would only release the information that was appropriate for a given party. Of course this would require a tremendous database of info, and much of it would have to be segregated to prevent the right info from being routed to the wrong entity.
Probably have to be one very complex computer system with multiple safeguards. (I mean after you run a dna check on all available sources for comparison, do you try to hack into the medical database or CODIS to determine your paternity?)
Someone out there is probably already using the standard geaneology resources to see if madame "x" would make a good spouse. A repository with the depth and breadth that DNAP will require will be a target for both paid and casual hackers. Of course this opens up the possibility of perhaps a best "scientific" guess as to who would be the best choice for producing a future olympic hero etc. Most of us would be happy with just knowing that we would be or not be blessed with 5 fingers and five toes on each appendage so we would either agree to adopt or look for a less risky partner.
Now this isn't out there yet, (in giga-sized use) but we are aware that some "genetic arrangements" have occurred among sperm or egg donors. We are also aware that some diseases are more prevalent within limited genetic pools, and many who have had family members touched by these "genetic conditions" are quite willing to seek counseling and "any" reasonable method to prevent an additional victim of the genetic fault.
(Some people for reasons of religion etc. do not feel this is the way to go, but a lot of folks are aware of genetics now and are willing at least to consider it in family planning.)
Yes friends, male pattern baldness is a curse .... well nevermind...
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