With all types of technology becoming more and more advanced, the next improvement is a person’s DNA becoming digital. Digital technologies are becoming more of a normal thing of life, however, should DNA be part of that. If DNA is becoming the ultimate personally identifying information (PII), you can just imagine the street value of the PII on the dark web. Hackers will become more likely to take a hard look at how they can benefit from accessing such information (Rizkallah 2018). Besides making DNA digital, scientists are experimenting with ‘CRISPR babies.’ CRISPR is the editing of the genes in human eggs with the goal of benefiting that child’s life. Since CRISPR is still in an experimenting phase, the ethical question is the safety behind the test and what is determined accurate enough.

I am all for making human DNA digital, however there should be the precautions of the idea that hackers will want to access the information. Before human DNA is put at risk, cybersecurity developers should test their security on animal DNA. As for CRISPR, the goal will make the human life better, but the long-term effects of the gene editing should be taken into account. When editing a human egg to limit the amount of myostatin it causes an increase in the muscle mass of the human. However, bodybuilders or strongmen have issues living among normal size humans. They have to find a store that sells their size of clothes, find a car that fits them, and grocery stores that sell enough food for them. So, does implementing digital technology in the gene and DNA aspects of human life beneficial? Yes, but it has its precautions.