While ordinary data breaches have become a staple of our daily lives, the loss of genetic information stands out. Most data created during our lifetime either loses its value within a year (such as research data), or you can change it (like passwords), thereby making older versions obsolete and useless for hackers.
Yet, in many cases, we share parts of our biometric data without even considering its value. And that’s also true for much more mundane biometric data such as fingerprints and face scans. What they do have in common with genetic profiles is that choosing biometric logins puts us at the mercy of developers creating those systems.
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