Why sperm donor privacy is under threat from DNA sites:
Share to twitter23andMe has been used to track down donors before. An ethics professor has now sounded the alarm on DNA tracking sites' impact on donor privacy. When sperm donors join clinics, their critical right to privacy has always been guaranteed.
That's according to professor Guido Pennings, professor of ethics and bioethics at Ghent University, Belgium, who claimed in athat"searches through genetic databases jeopardize the privacy of people who did and did not register on them." Pennings even suggested such DNA tracking services should be banned because of the impact on people's private lives. Debbie Kennett, a genealogist and honorary research associate at UCL, toldthat Pennings' claims failed"to recognise the rights of donor-conceived individuals." 23andMe and Ancestry.
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