DNA Theft Wades Into Largely Uncharted Legal Territory
11th August 2011
“We leave our DNA everywhere,” Jules Epstein, law professor at Widener University told the ABA Journal. “If you smoke a cigarette and drop it or if you go to the barbershop and your hair is cut, you are leaving your DNA behind. To the extent that DNA has been abandoned, there is no invasion of privacy if others collect it.”
August 11th, 2011 at 15:03
Ahh… maybe this is a case where copywrite law could be employed to protect your proprietary DNA from being used without your permission?
Meh, maybe not.
Could it be considered identity theft?