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by amenghra 1482 days ago
Hypothetical situation: how would you feel if your medical records and used to calculate health risks for your children/other family members and refuse specific insurances (or make them more expensive)?
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Non hypothetically, if your parents have a genetic condition that can be passed onto their offspring, in my country you are checked against them to try prevent them or catch them in the early stages.

For free (payed by the taxes)

That’s a good point.

I was imagining some sort of anonymized records database—turns out you can look up specific names which I agree yields some undesirable outcomes.