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Google and Amazon want to store your DNA in the cloud
In the scramble between the mega-information-monopolies to control every aspect of your life, Amazon and Google are now vying with each other to own your DNA. Well, maybe not exactly own it — at least not yet, anyway — but they want to store it in the cloud and, as far as I’m concerned, that’s essentially the same thing.
Here’s the background story: Scientists and healthcare companies want to store human genome sequences for various reasons. One is research into diseases and their genomic roots; another is the development of what has been dubbed “personalized medicine,” but whatever the reason, storing genomic sequences is already an industry worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and is likely to become a billion-dollar cash cow soon, and both Amazon and Google want a piece of it …. http://www.naturalnews.com
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2015/06/google-and-amazon-want-to-store-your.html
