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You don’t worry about an additional potentially malicious actor having your information because one already has it?

If I was worried I wouldn't have furnished my DNA to a corporation with very little accountability in the first place.

I got enough out of the deal (instead of nothing from the government) that it was in my mind an acceptable tradeoff. No one's about to start cloning me.

Your DNA is not secret. You leave it everywhere you go. You have no reasonable expectation of privacy for your litter when you litter. It's only a matter of time and of tech before everybody has a copy of everybody's DNA.

That is the crux of the entire privacy argument. Why strive for privacy when "I have nothing to hide?" Also, how sure are you that having a copy of everyone's DNA data will become widespread? At a minimum, perhaps if you delay making the data easy to extract one can at least hold out hope that privacy laws will catch up. Of course, there's zero guarantee in that happening either.

Lastly, security through obscurity is not something to be relied upon. But it can work for a period of time.

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