January 8, 2013

Spying on your genes

Stuff has a story about genetic testing today, which leads off

Those sending their DNA to be analysed cheaply overseas are obliged to share the results with life insurers and risk losing control of their most sensitive information.

If you read further, it turns out that all the information about insurance and law is Australian.

In October, they had a similar story, with information on the relevant US law.

Perhaps next time there will be some NZ context.

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Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »