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Comment by bobcostas55 | Hacker News Reader

What's the downside? If the info was irrelevant then I'd understand it, but obviously genes are relevant to risk. Just as there's nothing wrong with e.g. age-based discrimination, I don't see the problem here.

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No downsides. Please post your complete medical history, financial transactions, porn history here so we can evaluate your fitness for your next job.

Also, all of your activities both at work and at home will be monitored for compliance with our "Helping Our Employees be Safer and Healthier" policy. No smoking, no drinking, no refined sugar, no red meat, no extra-marital or unprotected sex or your coverage may be denied. Don't forget to do your morning calisthenics: we will be watching. Welcome to the firm.

Employers already check credit reports, so they know about problems with your financial history. I don't see how porn is relevant.

We need to know too. Just to make sure you're safe around children. Of course you have nothing to hide, so this shouldn't be a big deal.

Don't worry, the public is perfectly competent to draw relevant conclusions from that information too.

Hmmmm... perhaps maybe some privacy might be called for then?

> Just as there's nothing wrong with e.g. age-based discrimination,

Sure there is, are you familiar with the Age Discrimination in Emloyment Act of 1967 [1]?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_Discrimination_in_Employ...

Easy to understand why someone working in tech might assume it was legal though :-/

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