Encryption Technology Could Protect the Privacy of Your DNA
Your deoxyribonucleic acid is some of the most familiar data out there — encoded in it is information about your health , your personality , your family story . It ’s not hard to imagine how such sensitive contingent could be damaging should they diminish intothe incorrect hands . And yet , the privacy practices of the people and political program handling that information isn’texactly up to snuff . Researchers at Stanford , though , say they may have a fixing for the lagging privacy protocols putting anyone who ’s ever done a DNA test at risk of indecent exposure ....