Why Does Google Want Your DNA?

Gene editing: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2018-04-10/gene-editing-good

Bay Area’s Wojcicki family honored: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Area-s-Wojcicki-family-honored-4415518.php

House Republicans would let employers demand workers’ genetic test results https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-republicans-let-employers-demand-100034946.html

The Doyenne of DNA Says: Just Chillax With Your Ex: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/18/style/anne-wojcicki-23andme-genetics.html?_r=0

Sergey Brin Profile: https://www.forbes.com/profile/sergey-brin/

Google founder Sergey Brin and wife Anne Wojcicki have gotten divorced http://www.businessinsider.com/googles-sergey-brin-and-anne-wojcicki-divorced-2015-6

Larry Page and Sergey Brin paid $1,700 a month to rent the garage where Google was born http://www.businessinsider.com/google-cofounders-paid-1700-garage-rent-2015-9

Company profile: 23andme https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=34511998

DNA tests for IQ are coming, but it might not be smart to take one https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610339/dna-tests-for-iq-are-coming-but-it-might-not-be-smart-to-take-one/

Insurance discrimination https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/01/17/169634045/some-types-of-insurance-can-discriminate-based-on-genes

Genetic Discrimination Law: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/03/genetic-discrimination-law-gina/519216/

Life Insurance Companies, genetic discrimination https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2016/05/08/life-insurance-companies-deny-coverage-cancer-genes-like-brca/

GINA https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/03/genetic-discrimination-law-gina/519216/

Eugenics and birth control: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pill-eugenics-and-birth-control/

Sanger and birth control/race control: https://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/articles/bc_or_race_control.php

Criminals could alter their DNA to evade justice with new genetic editing tools https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/05/05/criminals-could-alter-dna-evade-justice-new-genetic-editing/ Why Facebook and Google mine your data, and why there’s nothing you can do to stop ithttp://bgr.com/2016/02/11/why-facebook-and-google-mine-your-data-and-why-theres-nothing-you-can-do-to-stop-it/

Police can request your DNA from sites like Ancestry, 23andMe https://www.ajc.com/news/national/police-can-request-your-dna-from-sites-like-ancestry-23andme/lj2ZhHB1J69rpiANWThLfM/

How to delete your DNA data from genetics companies like 23andMe and Ancestry http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-delete-dna-genetic-data-2018-5

23ANDME WANTS YOU TO SHARE EVEN MORE HEALTH DATA https://www.wired.com/story/23andme-wants-you-to-share-even-more-health-data/

DNA testing: Americans sign away their rights http://www.startribune.com/dna-testing-americans-sign-away-their-rights/479020833/

The Golden State Killer case shows how swiftly we’re losing genetic privachttps://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2018/5/3/17313796/genetic-privacy-killer-golden-state-serial-killer-genealogy-genome

23andMe Wants Its DNA Data to Be Less White https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/23andme-diversity-dna/558575/

Regulating fast-moving consumer genetic testing industry is no small challenge https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2018/04/09/regulating-fast-moving-consumer-genetic-testing-industry-is-no-small-challenge/

2015 Google Ventures CEO: “If we each keep our genetic information secret, then we’re all going to die.” http://thescienceexplorer.com/brain-and-body/google-ventures-ceo-if-we-each-keep-our-genetic-information-secret-then-we-re-all

The rise and fall and rise again of 23andMe https://www.nature.com/news/the-rise-and-fall-and-rise-again-of-23andme-1.22801

Congress is a decade behind in overseeing DNA testing companies http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/article210360589.html

Number of times Google met at White House: http://thehill.com/policy/technology/277251-report-highlights-hundreds-of-meetings-between-white-house-and-google

Your Genome May Have Already Been Hacked http://www.govtech.com/health/Your-Genome-May-Have-Already-Been-Hacked.html

Saving GINA: Is Genetic Privacy Imperiled? http://blogs.plos.org/dnascience/2017/03/09/saving-gina-is-genetic-privacy-imperiled/

Why Silicon Valley Must Go to War https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/opinion/silicon-valley-pentagon.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FGoogle%20Inc.&action=click&contentCollection=business&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=3&pgtype=collection

GOP Bill Would Let Your Employer Demand to See Your Genetic Information http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/03/gop-bill-would-let-your-boss-demand-to-see-your-genes.html

The government has your baby’s DNA http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/04/baby.dna.government/Chinese

project probes the genetics of genius https://www.nature.com/news/chinese-project-probes-the-genetics-of-genius-1.12985

Calico and AncestryDNA: http://www.ancestry.com/corporate/newsroom/press-releases/ancestrydna-and-calico-to-research-the-genetics-of-human-lifespan

China Snares Innocent and Guilty Alike to Build World’s Biggest DNA Database https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-snares-innocent-and-guilty-alike-to-build-worlds-biggest-dna-database-1514310353

Hacking the President’s DNA: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/11/hacking-the-presidents-dna/309147/?single_page=true

Such “genetic bombs” could contain anthrax or bubonic plague tailored to activate only when genes indicated the infected person was from a particular group. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2004/oct/28/thisweekssciencequestions.weaponstechnology

23andMe’s Designer Baby Patent https://www.huffingtonpost.com/dov-fox/23andmes-designer-baby-pa_b_4042165.html

ASSOCIATION FOR MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY ET AL. v. MYRIAD GENETICS, INC., ET AL. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-398_1b7d.pdf

(1998) The “ethno-bomb” is reportedly Israel’s response to the threat that Iraq may be just weeks away from completing its own biological weapons.https://www.wired.com/1998/11/israels-ethnic-weapon/

23andMe Sells Data for Drug Search https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601506/23andme-sells-data-for-drug-search/

Police can legally use 23andMe, other ancestry tools to obtain your DNA https://www.local10.com/news/police-can-legally-use-23andme-other-ancestry-tools-to-obtain-your-dna?

Military Review: Ethnic Weapons http://www.usa-anti-communist.com/pdf/Military_Review_November_1970.pdf

23andMe, the Mountain View genetics testing company, has received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to sell tests that indicate people’s risk of developing 10 diseases including Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, celiac and some blood clotting disorders. http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/94061-fda-allows-23andme-to-sell-genetic-reports/#entry811641

Police can legally use 23andMe, other ancestry tools to obtain your DNA https://www.local10.com/news/police-can-legally-use-23andme-other-ancestry-tools-to-obtain-your-dna?

DNA evidence can be easily fabricated https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/science/18dna.html

White House/Google visits: https://theintercept.com/2016/04/22/googles-remarkably-close-relationship-with-the-obama-white-house-in-two-charts/