I do believe that there is a major risk for direct to consumer DNA testing. And while I don’t know how far it could be taken in terms of security breaches in the future, I do think the possibility of having consumers or organizations use DNA to prove that someone knows who they say they are can lead to much more devastating effects than if a Social Security number was stolen. Now in the medical field, I would be almost completely fine in so far that it was a closed off system only used for medical purposes and not connected to the Internet, so that if a breach does happen it is completely contained.

I think there is a large potential for genetic discrimination if DNA is used to see if an individual is a good fit for a role in a company. While genetic discrimination has been on the decline, I see no real good reason for using DNA, something completely unrelated to personality, to determine if a person would be good for a position within a company. Now of course there’s exceptions like maybe a movie needs a white actor, but at that point there’s no reason to have DNA being used when you could just take a photo.

It makes me hope that we become more conscience about human factor security, because of just how new it is, and the lack of security that has been put in place to protect for such an exploit using someone’s DNA. I also think the text is right when it speaks about how users can demand that organizations also spend time creating and implementing security for our DNA. While also creating policies for what to do if it is compromised, instead of only focusing on how DNA can be used.