Abuse Possibilities for Genetic Data

December 30, 2010 | There's no federal law against surreptitious DNA testing, and in 2009 New Scientist writer Michael Reilly sucessfully collected a colleague's DNA (from a water glass), had it amplified and sent it to a genetic testing company. Even though GINA, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, provides some protections, the law says little about what consumer genetic companies can do with the data they collect. Forbes