Who owns 23andMe? Jason Crow WARNS that firm could be used to create bio-weapons that target a person's DNA to KILL them
A genetic testing firm, 23andMe, is under fire after US House Intelligence Committee member Jason Crow cautioned people that the firm can be used to program new bio-weapons to target them. He said, “You can actually take someone's DNA, take, you know, their medical profile and you can target a biological weapon that will kill that person or take them off the battlefield or make them inoperable.”
Sharing his views at the Aspen Security Forum on July 22, Crow warned Americans to not be careless about sharing their DNA with private companies, according to reports by DailyMail. “You can't have a discussion about this without talking about privacy and the protection of commercial data because expectations of privacy have degraded over the last 20 years,” said the representative of Colorado while giving a heads up that bio-weapons are being made that use a target's DNA to kill that person. "Young folks actually have very little expectation of privacy, that's what the polling and the data show," he expressed while adding, “People will very rapidly spit into a cup and send it to 23andMe and get really interesting data about their background. And guess what? Their DNA is now owned by a private company. It can be sold off with very little intellectual property protection or privacy protection and we don't have legal and regulatory regimes to deal with that,” he added.
