who should own this information or who should decide how to use it?? (should it be left to corporations or government and why?
2007-03-28 11:55:26 · 2 answers · asked by Kyla 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Neither, unless the individual agrees to allows it. Governments can use it as a database to cross-reference at crime scenes even if the person had never committed a crime before. Also, the government is notorious for selling their information to corporations (hence the do not call list) which will use the information for insurance policies, etc. A lot of researchers in the NIH are leery of submitting grant proposals for genotyping (the genetic code) work b/c the government is proposing to store individuals information into a publically available database.
2007-03-28 12:03:46 · answer #1 · answered by dissaffected01 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Much of the information is readily availible now; if you think there are some nefarious villians in play as in Michael Crichton's novel "Next', I'm not sure what you're asking. Cells have been owned since a famous California case when a man went in for surgery and lo and behold found out the University of California had patented a cell line from his spleen I believe. These cells had a certain resistance to cancer if I remember correctly. Look up U of C. v. John Moore
2007-03-28 12:04:51 · answer #2 · answered by bioguy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋