[Eisenstein]

The fact that there is so much potential for the use of that information yet we haven't even started putting mechanisms in place to utilize it is what scares the hell out of me. If the threat model is 'to be determined' then especially when the data is being used commercially, for somewhat trivial reasons and without any substantial legal protections then the way to act is 'from my cold, dead, hands'.

Just remember that no matter who in charge you think is neutral or bad or great, things change, attitudes change, shit happens (remember the Patriot Act?)...

It isn't paranoid to say 'I don't trust the future, let's act cautiously instead of frivolously with things that have the potential to be extremely valuable to me, extremely impactful to society, and in which currently sits the greatest unexplored potential of this generation'.

[manxman]

Cool so you going to wear gloves every time you eat out, touch a door, hold a glass etc.? You’re shedding DNA throughout the day. How is that fundamentally different?

[Eisenstein]

If I said I didn't want to go hunting with Dick Cheyney would you ask if I wore a bullet proof vest everywhere I went? When people look before walking into an intersection do you ask them if they erect bollards in front of their house?

But ok. Next time you go in for surgery tell the doc not to wash their hands because you aren't a scaredy cat.

Refusing to willingly take stupid risks is different than trying to live a life without them at all.