The Dark Side of DNA Data:
Exploring the Privacy Implications of Aggregated Domestic Genomic Information
DNA data is being treated as a commercial asset, not the personal information that it is.
Digital Democracy Dies in the Dark
Since the first time a computer connected to another computer in 1962 and formed the infantile connection that grew into what we know as the internet today (Leiner et al. 3), securing it has proven to be an unrelenting challenge. The objective of the internet was to share information, and though it has done that quite successfully, it has also created new vulnerable spaces accessible to the rest of the world. At no other point in history has companies, governments, individuals, and infrastructure been so easily accessible to the world at large.
Welcome To The “Splinternet”
Since its commercial and political value was recognized, dominance over the Internet has been fought over. Choosing to balkanize the Internet, also loosely referred to as the “splinternet," would bring with it both interesting risks and rewards. Neither would come without requiring massive changes, including trying to keep the Internet duct-taped together the way it is today.