Nasty development in medical privacy

[Ian BROWN]

Ross wrote:
>Yet another example of the limitations of `encrypting stuff' as a
>solution to real world information protection problems

"Anonymising" genetic data is going to be an absolute nightmare for medical 
privacy... With Jack Straw's wet dream of trebling the size of the 
national DNA database going full speed ahead, how can a medical record that 
contains any kind of DNA sample ever be considered properly deidentified?

Will we have to wait 20+ years until medical researchers understand the genome 
enough to be able to pull out the specific sequences needed and junk the rest 
in order to try and reduce identification?

Ian :(