[clusterfish]

But you can't do that to a million people, only to individual targets. Economic scale matters in a lot of evil plots.

[ComodoHacker]

Just wait until these fancy "smart" coffee cups with built-in nano-labs become ubiquitous.

[a_bonobo]

If we have nano-labs then we can also have nano-obfuscation-labs to protect our privacy - randomly mutate or CRISPR any DNA we shed

[mirimir]

Before that happens, I'm guessing that full DNA sequencing at birth will be a legal requirement. Like footprints are now.

[alcover]

Holly... You're right. This will happen. To an over-arching state this is the ultimate modus.

  INSERT INTO Citizen(dob,ssn)
  VALUES 2030-10-28, sha(atgcaatgcatcgc..)

[kzrdude]

hashing (sha) is not very appropriate since you're not likely to ever reproduce exactly the same base pair sequence for the same person.

[oh_sigh]

What could you do to a million or a billion people that would make life a nightmare for them if their biometric data was stolen en masse?

[bkanber]

My concern is not what can be done today, but rather in 15 years.

[victor9000]

Discriminate against them based on medical conditions, persecute them based on "impurities" (think Hitler & Jews or China & Uyghurs), make them targets of fishing expeditions for unsolved crimes, etc.