Where is my information going?
By S.Fabian Figure 1. Direct to consumer testing kit https://live.staticflickr.com/7906/47400098641_0eae7ebdb0_b.jpg Figure 2: My direct testing results How many times have you wondered about your ancestry or were curious about potential diseases your genetic history might encompass? I know for a fact that I was curious to see my ancestry, so I embarked on a quest to try direct-to-consumer testing for my ancestry. My results were pretty much what I had predicted. I was about 87.7% Indigenous American and 9.3% European. These were nice results to receive as I was also able to connect with a long-lost cousin in the family line. However, in light of feeding my curiosity I didn’t think much of the policies that were put into place to protect my information. So what are they? Do we even know what they are? As we do so much to make sure our SSN or credit card information is protected, shouldn’t we do the same for our genetic information? Like that is literally us while the other t...