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No, I don't think that that's obvious. At least in the US, there are already protections for genetic information (including but not limited to GINA [1]).

In the long run, I think keeping your genetic information private will be untenable- the potential benefits will outweigh the drawbacks. Plus, anyone sufficiently motivated could get your DNA somehow, you shed your DNA everywhere you go, no getting around that.

So what's left is to urge your representatives to maintain and strengthen regulations on how that information can be used, and in the long run we'll just have to trust that that will be enough.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_Information_Nondiscrim...

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