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Crowdsourced DNA Project Says It Will Shut Down to Protect Users from Rising Authoritarianism | The creator said he is worried about the changing political climate circling the globe.
The creator said he is worried about the changing political climate circling the globe.
An open-source genetic information repository that has subsisted on crowdsourced contributions will shut down next month, partially to protect its user base from the threat of rising authoritarianism, its founder has announced. He added that he was troubled by the changing political tides sweeping the globe and that he worried that law enforcement agencies for undemocratic governments would abuse the data he had provided: The organization’s announced closure comes at the same time that 23andMe, the gargantuan corporate DNA giant, is in the midst of finding a buyer for its own huge genetic database.
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