VOX recently featured a column by an author calling himself George Doe, explaining his family’s experience with purchasing and using personalized genetic tests. Doe, who has a PhD in stem cell and reproductive biology, certainly had the background knowledge to use 23andMe’s service responsibly, and expressed his delight in sharing the testing with his parents, but the results of the genetic testing started a chain reaction that ended in family tragedy. In this post for Privacy Perspectives, IAPP President and CEO Trevor Hughes, CIPP, delves into the incident and discusses what it can tell privacy pros about the ethics of choice and the value of forgetting.
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