A sequencing company could simply keep someone's DNA together with some "username/password" info in its database. So, the company doesn't *really* know who is actually who, but users know who they are and so can login and still access their data all they want. However, such an "anonymous" database would not be of any use to any law enforcement as well, and this would work in the interests of privacy.
Yes sometimes users may have to "mail samples" from their address (or a PO box), but that's fine since the company does not have to actually store those addresses anywhere after the return mail/sequenced-dna-data is sent back to them.
A sequencing company could simply keep someone's DNA together with some "username/password" info in its database. So, the company doesn't *really* know who is actually who, but users know who they are and so can login and still access their data all they want. However, such an "anonymous" database would not be of any use to any law enforcement as well, and this would work in the interests of privacy.
Yes sometimes users may have to "mail samples" from their address (or a PO box), but that's fine since the company does not have to actually store those addresses anywhere after the return mail/sequenced-dna-data is sent back to them.
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So basically what you're saying is, "There is no challenge for the EU to do what Russia and China are already doing". Is that a correct assessment?
Why not just make it "anonymous" ?
A sequencing company could simply keep someone's DNA together with some "username/password" info in its database. So, the company doesn't *really* know who is actually who, but users know who they are and so can login and still access their data all they want. However, such an "anonymous" database would not be of any use to any law enforcement as well, and this would work in the interests of privacy. Yes sometimes users may have to "mail samples" from their address (or a PO box), but that's fine since the company does not have to actually store those addresses anywhere after the return mail/sequenced-dna-data is sent back to them.
Why not just make it "anonymous" ?
A sequencing company could simply keep someone's DNA together with some "username/password" info in its database. So, the company doesn't *really* know who is actually who, but users know who they are and so can login and still access their data all they want. However, such an "anonymous" database would not be of any use to any law enforcement as well, and this would work in the interests of privacy. Yes sometimes users may have to "mail samples" from their address (or a PO box), but that's fine since the company does not have to actually store those addresses anywhere after the return mail/sequenced-dna-data is sent back to them.
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So basically what you're saying is, "There is no challenge for the EU to do what Russia and China are already doing". Is that a correct assessment?