After a Trump-era expansion of DNA collection, immigration officials are apparently funneling 1 million samples a year into the national crime database.
True. Another guy also pointed out a pic cannot be truly, fully anonymized, and this is also true. Plenty of nuance in the issue for sure. But it is still, nonetheless, possible to render a large genetic database harmless, if proper precautions are taken.
edit: Harmless was a poor word. I really just meant it can be rendered useless for identifying specific individuals, and only really able to provide info on broad population trends. If proper precautions are taken, which they are not currently being taken. So, that’s not good.
And a lot of “anonymized” data can actually be deanonymized again
True. Another guy also pointed out a pic cannot be truly, fully anonymized, and this is also true. Plenty of nuance in the issue for sure. But it is still, nonetheless, possible to render a large genetic database harmless, if proper precautions are taken.
edit: Harmless was a poor word. I really just meant it can be rendered useless for identifying specific individuals, and only really able to provide info on broad population trends. If proper precautions are taken, which they are not currently being taken. So, that’s not good.