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Speaker 1: Now DNA testing company twenty three and meter is being

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Speaker 1: taken to court by a huge number of US states

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Speaker 1: because what's going on is that they want to sell

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Speaker 1: off the customer's personal genetic information. But this is without

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Speaker 1: customer's knowledge or consent. The company holds DNA info for

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Speaker 1: more than fifteen million people, many of them will be

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Speaker 1: in New Zealand as well. Rick Shearer is a privacy lawyer. Hey, Rick, Hi,

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Speaker 1: how are you well? Thank you? If you've sent your

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Speaker 1: DNA into the loot, should you be worried?

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Speaker 2: I've said that right from the start. It's highly tempting.

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Speaker 2: Obviously we all want to know where we came from

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Speaker 2: and who were related to, but one never knows where

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Speaker 2: these things are going to end up.

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Speaker 1: Where are they going to end up? So apparently, if

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Speaker 1: you have pharmaceutical company said last month that would paid

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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty six million US dollars for it,

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Speaker 1: what do they do with it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well they'll use it to develop pharmaceuticals, no doubt,

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Speaker 2: and for any other purposes that they might want to

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Speaker 2: use it for. They say, of course that they will

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Speaker 2: abide by the privacy policies and so on, that the

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Speaker 2: company already had. But though, like many privacy policies are

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Speaker 2: a little bit of opaic, you don't quite know where

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Speaker 2: it's going to end up or what they're going to

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Speaker 2: do with it.

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Speaker 1: So what's the worst that they can do with it? Rick?

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Speaker 1: I mean, because increasingly, I'm sure you're experiencing this. Increasingly

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Speaker 1: we are getting we are living in a world where

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Speaker 1: our information is just widely available to companies, Google, et cetera. Right,

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Speaker 1: So why should we What are these guys going to

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Speaker 1: do with it? What should be worried about?

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Speaker 2: Well, we don't know what they're going to do with it,

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Speaker 2: that's the problem. And terms of terms of service and

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Speaker 2: privacy policies can be changed almost welly Nelly, these days

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Speaker 2: where we're used to getting the email in our box

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Speaker 2: saying oh, by the way, our privacy policy has changed,

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Speaker 2: if you continue to use our service, then you've accepted it.

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Speaker 2: The difficulty here, I think is that that's all very well,

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Speaker 2: where you know you're giving up some sort of personal

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Speaker 2: information of some data, even a credit card. You can

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Speaker 2: change your credit card when you like, you can't change

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Speaker 2: your DNA. So once it's out there, and once it's gone,

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Speaker 2: it's gone for good. And of course, with the increases

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Speaker 2: in technology, the use of DNA to all sorts of things,

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Speaker 2: including identifying US just for run of the mill types

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Speaker 2: of things is going to become more prevalent, so the

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Speaker 2: ability for people to impersonate US using DNA is likely

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Speaker 2: to increase as well.

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Speaker 1: Hey, very good point, Rick, Thanks very much, appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Rick.

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