MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — These days, DNA testing is making headlines in politics and criminal justice — and genetic privacy is increasingly in the spotlight.
At 23andMe, the industry’s best-known company, the executive tasked with thinking about safeguarding DNA is global privacy officer Kate Black.
STAT recently sat down with Black at 23andMe’s headquarters here in Silicon Valley. Here’s what she had to say about her role, recent news stories, and 23andMe’s policies:
Agreed, can’t they just summarize what the article is about? Is 23andme for it, against it, or just want to sell the information to insurance companies so I can be denied insurance because they think I have an increased risk of variant CJD or something?
Don’t send out twitter links to articles behind a firewall – makes your potentila customers unhappy.