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by streb-lo 2375 days ago
Like you say, legal barriers can only prevent things that rely on a legal market, like insurance carriers from discriminating against people's genetic makeup. Against genetic weaponization and other state-sponsored uses it would be a bit like banning nuclear bombs -- a great idea for everyone but a foolish one for each individual state.

And that's only if such legal barriers are even constructed which I'm not sure they will be. Look how the privacy battle has turned out thus far.