Protecting our DNA from cybercriminals is crucial. As referenced in the “Hacking Criminals” article, your social security, credit card and bank account information are all items that can be replaced-your DNA? Not so much. That is permanent and once it is digitized it is stored in a database where anything could go wrong. While I do see how digitizing DNA could be beneficial medically, the risks are far greater. Hackers will hack any and everything but “hacking a human” is taking it a bit far. Cyberbiosecurity takes a deeper look into the risks of digitizing of life sciences, including DNA. I believe that DNA digitizing has opened up the idea that now jobs can ask for DNA to determine if someone is right for a specific role. I am completely against this. What does your DNA have to do with you being the right “fit” for a job? At this point it seems it would be safe to say this could be considered as workplace discrimination. We work hard to gain the knowledge for a job position just for us to be potentially turned down because of what our DNA consists of. Me, personally, I have always wanted to try some form of DNA ancestry testing but was always skeptical of the “what ifs” and unknown risks following the testing. Digging deeper into the article, I did additional research where I saw that a few ancestry DNA companies helped to solve cold case murders due to family members of those convicted DNA being on file and police having access to it. While it is a relief to know a case that went cold is closed with the help of DNA digitizing, it is also scary not knowing who has access to your DNA. I agree with “Hacking Humans” that we have the ability to slow down making digitizing DNA a trend and protect ourselves, and our DNA, at all cost. I do not want to see a DNA breach any time soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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