Posts Tagged ‘privacy’

Cold Cases Heat Up with New Forensic DNA Methods: Sequencing technologies are deriving information from challenging samples, and database tools are ensuring that the information yields meaningful results: Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News: Vol 40, No 9

January 7, 2024

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/gen.40.09.05

featuring https://othram.com/

Genetic privacy breach at 23 and Me

December 8, 2023

23andMe: Profiles of 6.9 million people hacked
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67624182

Animals can be tracked by simply swabbing leaves

October 20, 2023

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/09/06/animals-can-be-tracked-by-simply-swabbing-leaves

This Is a Reminder That You’re Probably Oversharing on Venmo – The New York Times

August 12, 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/09/technology/personaltech/venmo-privacy-oversharing.html

Mark Gerstein on Twitter: “@SGgrc Thought the discussion of location tracking #privacy in the IETF specification (https://t.co/kRK3y2l8VR) was quite sophisticated — a real balancing act between the interests of the tracker and tracked. Great thanks for so carefully going through it.” / Twitter

June 11, 2023

https://twitter.com/MarkGerstein/status/1667930631345405955

https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-923-notes.pdf

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/pdf/draft-detecting-unwanted-location-trackers-00

Might be related to some issues with genomic privacy

Interesting New Privacy Papers

May 29, 2023

the authors used deep sequencing of environmental DNA (eDNA) to find human genomic information, which they called human genetic bycatch (HGB). This paper was published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02056-2

This study was also featured in an article in the New York Times.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/science/environmental-dna-ethics-privacy.html

Humans shed genetic information everywhere they go

May 29, 2023

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/05/17/humans-shed-genetic-information-everywhere-they-go

Your DNA Can Now Be Pulled From Thin Air. Privacy Experts Are Worried. – The New York Times

May 17, 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/science/environmental-dna-ethics-privacy.html

Proving a photo is fake is one thing. Proving it isn’t is another | The Economist

March 6, 2023

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/01/09/proving-a-photo-is-fake-is-one-thing-proving-it-isnt-is-another

China’s government is mass-collecting DNA from Tibetans | The Economist

September 30, 2022

https://www.economist.com/china/2022/09/13/chinas-government-is-mass-collecting-dna-from-tibetans