In other news, this is surprisingly not very well known but california takes, and saves, a DNA sample of any baby born in a CA hospital. There is no consent nor opt-out, not even notification. You can write a letter to have the sample destroyed and sometime later you'll get confirmation of such. You can only hope that it wasn't sequenced and saved already and/or that it was properly destroyed.
huh. "many states" do it, I had no idea. Apparently all 50 states are required to do a genetic screening but I guess above and beyond that some states save the sample.
I wonder what would happen if a parent or family member physically intervened to prevent taking the sample.
In other news, this is surprisingly not very well known but california takes, and saves, a DNA sample of any baby born in a CA hospital. There is no consent nor opt-out, not even notification. You can write a letter to have the sample destroyed and sometime later you'll get confirmation of such. You can only hope that it wasn't sequenced and saved already and/or that it was properly destroyed.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-biobank-dna-babies-w...
huh. "many states" do it, I had no idea. Apparently all 50 states are required to do a genetic screening but I guess above and beyond that some states save the sample.
I wonder what would happen if a parent or family member physically intervened to prevent taking the sample.