genetic privacy

In an editorial, the Washington Post calls on Congress to develop privacy standards to govern genetic testing companies.

It will be possible to upload genomic data to Australia's My Health Record system, which has raised privacy issues, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.

My Gene Counsel's Ellen Matloff says Facebook needs to regain the trust of patient groups that used its closed groups for support.

A number of consumer genetic testing companies are adopting best practice guidelines for customer privacy, the Washington Post reports.

MyHeritage experienced a data breach in which all of its users' email addresses were exposed, according to Stat News.

New York Senator Charles Schumer cautions that genetic testing companies could sell consumers' genetic data, the New York Post reports.

A cryptographic approach could help researchers keep genomic data private while researchers analyze it, Scientific American reports.