ROCKVILLE, MD – The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) today affirmed the crucial role of genetic and genomic data sharing to advance medicine and health research, and asserted core principles about privacy protections that should apply to all human genetics and genomics research regardless of funding source. The Society’s views appear today in The…
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Woman horrified to discover her husband is her cousin after buying him a DNA test for his birthday
Is there anyone who didn’t expect to see a story like this at some point? Joe Cadillic sent this report by Lydia Hawkens along to us: When you’ve been in a relationship with someone for a number of years, you can’t exactly blame someone for thinking they know EVERYTHING about their partner – including their…
Norwegian police: Missing WikiLeaks associate ‘most likely’ had a kayaking accident
AFP reports: Arjen Kamphuis, a Dutch cybersecurity expert who went missing under mysterious circumstances last year probably had a kayaking accident, Norwegian police said on Friday. Kamphuis, then aged 47, had not been seen since he left his hotel in the northern Norwegian town of Bodo on August 20th, 2018. Read more on The Local…
Privacy researchers devise a noise-exploitation attack that defeats dynamic anonymity
Natasha Lomas reports: Privacy researchers in Europe believe they have the first proof that a long-theorised vulnerability in systems designed to protect privacy by aggregating and adding noise to data to mask individual identities is no longer just a theory. The research has implications for the immediate field of differential privacy and beyond — raising…