A group of medical researchers have a counterintuitive proposal for shielding people's most intimate personal data from prying eyes.
Share more of it, they say. A lot more of it.
In a new paper published in the journal Science on Thursday, researchers suggest that the best way to protect genetic information might be for all Americans to deposit their data in a universal, nationwide DNA database. The paper is being published by Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Center for Genetic Privacy and Identity in Community Settings, a major center for the study of genetic privacy.