Extra Credit:Preventing Genetic Identify Theft

In order to make Genome Sequencing useful and valuable, the Presidential Commission for Study of Bioethics provided a report that provides recommendations of protecting the individuals in Genome Sequencing, such as having the state and federal government outlaw genome sequencing without consent and improving the database's securities that store the genetic information so that it gives new models for integrating whole genome sequence in health records. The reason that the commision made this decision is when it used to be carried by clinicians from Health Insurance Probability and Accountability act, it revealed inadequeate security for genetic protection in commercial and research arenas, leading only half of US states protecting individuals against surreptitous commercial sequencing. This can be dangerous and drop the genome sequencing cost from 2.5 billion to 1000 dollars , leading to a collapse in commercial sequencing. “In many states in the U.S., someone could legally pick up your discarded coffee cup, send a sample of your saliva out for sequencing to see if you show a predisposition for certain diseases,” Gutmann explained.(End of Pg.1). So protecting the individuals in Genome sequencing will be important to protect the value of genome data.

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What is good of protecting Genome sequencing is it does not cause the value to decrease or lessen, therefore preventing crashes in the sequencing, and the system has a great chance it will not be hacked because of the state and federal government monitoring.  The risks of protecting Genome sequencing is that the state and federal government has other to worry about than Genome Sequencing, causing them to not always having time to supervise the Genome sequencing. Also what happens if some states still do not want to protect genome sequencing, they become hackers, and sooner or later, they will find some way to hack the system, therefore crashing its' value.

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Protecting Genome Sequence is better since there is a very rare chance that someone will be able to hack Genome Sequencing because of the new models in the genome database.  The states would be forced to do it ,even though they reject the idea, by the state and federal government, who are recommended to protect the system of Genome sequencing. Also, even if Genome Sequencing gets hacked, the State and Federal Government will hunt down and possibly provide refund in Genome Sequence's money value, making it trustable. “Trust is the key to amassing the large number of genomic data sets needed to make powerful life-saving discoveries,” the commission wrote in a statement. (End of Page 2). So if you want the genome data, which contains human health and medicine, to be saved, then protecting the Genome sequence is the trustable and reasonable choice.

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