This data would be of much more interest to your health insurance company. The ultimate preexisting condition pricing guide.
Mostly a US concern, as usual.
Mostly a US concern, as usual.
No way to know how the regulation will change in the future depending on the amount of lobby dollars that are thrown.
This is especially scary in small, closely related communities like Iceland or Utah where a relatively low number of collected samples can be extrapolated to large swaths of the population that didn't give their genetic info away.
Also that protection is relatively new in the US and is constantly being attacked politically so it isn't unreasonable to think about a world where it is removed like other longstanding health related protections.
If the implication is that it is so old it won't ever be challenged it's worth noting that roe v wade was in '73.
Also, since 1991, many US states had already passed laws that prohibit insurers' use of genetic information in pricing, issuing, or structuring health insurance.