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The breach affects those related to you and affects you multi-generationally so there’s a lot of time for the impact to materialize. There are strong financial incentives for genetic discrimination on the part of insurers and employers. There are also plenty of fascists are happy as a clam to discriminate against anybody with certain genes.

If there’s any reason not to care, it’s not the lack of impact, it’s the impossibility of securing the data. I could sit here all day and convince you that you should care and then your cousin would get a dna analysis done and that would ultimately make all your caution mostly irrelevant. The only effective way to ensure genetic privacy is a legislative effort to control access to genetic databases, trying to avoid being put in such a database is only going to slow down how fast this happens.