If GWAS Made You Wary, Be Careful with Social Networking

May 06, 2009

In much the way scientists learned they could use minimal genotype data to identify "anonymized" individuals from pooled DNA samples, researchers have now determined that it is possible to ID anonymous users of social networking sites, according to this Technology Review article.

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