Genome Hackers Show No One’s DNA Is Anonymous Anymore
Genome Hackers Show No One’s DNA Is Anonymous Anymore
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
October 12, 201811m 4s
Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (dovetail.prxu.org) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.
Show Notes
In 2013, a young computational biologist named Yaniv Erlich shocked the research world by showing it was possible to unmask the identities of people listed in anonymous genetic databases using only an Internet connection. Policymakers responded by restricting access to pools of anonymized biomedical genetic data. An NIH official said at the time, “The chances of this happening for most people are small, but they’re not zero.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices