The UK at the Cutting Edge of Genetics
Undisclosed DNA takes the UK to the forefront of genetic
technology. We have the opportunity to harness the power of testing, disease research, ancestry tracing, and family matching – all
without asking anyone to forfeit privacy or needing to support a
massive database. Companies can obey the GDPR, an internet era–
legislation that can keep pace with other advances in science, whilst
we embrace the latest in biological and medical technology.
If we enshrine in law the conditions of efficient and anonymous
genetic analysis, then the UK will lead the rest of the world. We
can implement these legal demands. The technology in the patents
of Undisclosed DNA does not overturn everything you ever knew
about the physical world. It put together the pieces in a way that
was surprising at first but clear in retrospect.
In a good mystery story, a brilliant detective puts together the
solution when the audience has no idea but that answer seems obvious in retrospect. After the methods of Undisclosed DNA enable
mass genetic research that also fulfils the spirit of GDPR, others will
only respond with ‘Why didn’t I think of that?’
I Main Points
- Undisclosed DNA does what it says on the tin. Its tools will
render impossible the disclosure of your identity or genetic
information after a breach.
- The UK will be empowered to lead in medical research and
improve lives when it can safely log DNA on a broad scale to
follow genetic disorders by geographic region or community.
- Because mathematical principles guarantee the security, disinterested third parties can examine the code and nobody has
to place faith in a specific figure who says ‘Trust me.’
- As we process gargantuan troves of genetic information,
Britain will continue to stand on the shoulders of giants
whose insights into patterns and efficiency helped to win
World War II.
- The home-grown and patented technology yields a new revenue stream for the UK, which will become the cradle of a
revolutionary industry.
- Laws to require safe and responsible DNA collection canwin
allies whilst making no enemies.
- The aims of Undisclosed DNA fit neatly into existing law because Royal Assent has already been given to an act that requires the complete registration of newborns’ DNA in 2030.
2 ‘I Don’t Want My Info Out There.’
We need to minimize the data we handle for reasons legal
and personal.
The GDPR requires individuals, companies, and governments
to respect privacy. If companies are not prepared to protect information, then they are vulnerable to huge fines. If they cannot
demonstrate their abilities in this area, then they lose opportunities
to do business in certain contexts.
An all-or-nothing approach to DNA also means that many people are reluctant to enrol in a database run by even a most honest
company. Any enterprise can fail. See the furore over the fate of data
in the hands of the bankrupt company 23andMe.
Many will also balk at the prospect of a government-run
database. No one knows which workers in which departments will
use the info for what goals – neither in 2030 nor 2050.
Undisclosed DNA pleases both regulators and citizens.
Whether you leak the hash (the DNA Address) or the so-called
private keys, no one can reverse-engineer any of them into their
original forms. It is impossible. Every piece could have come from
multiple possibilities. If I say that the date of my birth is divisible
by three, then no one knows if it was the third of the month, the
sixth, the ninth, and so on.
Your DNA is your own, and you have a right to keep it secret.
Undisclosed DNA has laid out the methods to protect your ownership of it. People will know that their relationships, messages, and
genetic profiles stay confidential when working with an organization that follows a safe workflow
3 ‘Paranoid Activists Hold Us Back.’
Privacy advocates and cautious technologists warned against the
universal adoption genetic sequencing and logging for everyone. A
delayed uptake deprives us of two major advantages of genetic research: discovering family and matching genetic diseases.
We no longer have to balance the wishes of one group against
the other – or choose a side. The dilemma evaporates with Undisclosed DNA. Anyone can release genetic information for specific
purposes and not have to reveal an entire DNA sequence.
The DNA Address component of Undisclosed DNA permits
the tracking of genetic diseases in a large population. Because of
this, nobody has to anticipate an accusation of squandering an opportunity to prevent suffering, understand diseases, or even implement cures.
Undisclosed DNA also avoids the race to the bottom wherein
everyone competes to be the most selfish. Someone could charge
that some country somewhere will eventually pioneer massive
DNA cataloguing. As a result of that, we could be needlessly acting like martyrs if we do not develop more genetic research on our
population. Undisclosed DNA shows that the UK can lead in this
field without recklessly leaping forward.
4 ‘How Can I Trust You?’
Undisclosed DNA does not require faith in the same way that
you don’t need to believe that your calculator wouldn’t lie to you
when it says that two and two is four. No company has to store
your complete DNA, and the reputation and age of that company
are irrelevant.
The workings of Undisclosed DNA resemble natural and scientific laws. Every day you operate with the assumption that the
world is what it is – no need to trust a specific person.
When you fill a cup of tea by pouring a kettle, you expect that
the water will fall down from the spout of the kettle when you tip
it and that the water will fall into the cup below. You did not trust
that a king or queen would enforce the law of gravity.
Mathematical principles underpin Undisclosed DNA and produce the evidence for the claims that neither the DNA Address nor
a key can ever break your anonymity or open you to discrimination. By following the processes of Undisclosed DNA, every hash
and key that you create will automatically contain less information than the original. Even with access to anyone and everyone’s
hash or key, no one can figure out the underlying DNA or deanonymize anyone.
Because Undisclosed DNA works from mathematical laws, any
third party can examine it. People do not have to place their trust
in a specific person. You can pick whom to trust when it comes to
interpreting the data.
Ethics, and especially ethics in medicine, require informed consent. Newborn babies obviously cannot waive their rights, and we
cannot expect parents to anticipate all of the long-term ramifications of logging a person’s DNA. Ahead of time, new parents must
know that the NHS and the UK government will have physical limits to what they can do with a person’s DNA. The design of Undislosed DNA guarantees that. When the future consequences of genetic testing and tracking are vague, we must reassure people that
DNA research need not be ‘all or nothing’.
5 Yesterday: Bletchley Park. Today:
DNA Address.
Alan Turing and his team cracked the Nazis’ codes by squeezing out
the most of 1940s technology. Likewise, we can marshal the cutting
edge of science in 2025. Rather than buying more technology than
the Germans had, the boffins said what any expert would say: ‘Work
smarter, not harder.’ We can do that now too.
Bletchley won the day by making the workflow efficient. Today,
we stand in awe of the power of the computers in mobile phones or
the servers behind internet giants, but they are not all-powerful. It
still takes energy – and money – to perform various functions.
Our codebreakers did not waste time by trying every possible
solution to decrypt messages. Instead, they found patterns. Because
they knew that many messages ended with the same words in the
same order, they only needed to test a much smaller pool of guesses.
It is not feasible, nor desirable, to match everyone through a
straightforward comparison of all twenty-three chromosomes that
make up your DNA. Even a single chromosome holds a gargantuan
amount of genetic data.
Thanks to the DNA Address, however, we only employ the
more time-consuming steps after we have whittled down the list
of possibilities.
We can work much faster when we use just the totals of
each of the four proteins in DNA: cytosine, guanine, adenine,
and thymine. Computers can cross-reference four numbers much
more easily than they can check tens of millions of base pairs in
unique positions.
It is extremely rare that two people will have the same number
of cytosine proteins while also sporting identical totals for guanine,
for adenine, and for thymine. Given the number of humans out
there, some coincidences happen and require more work, but if we
first sort people with the DNA Address, we can reduce the workload a million-fold.
6 Economic Gains
The process of Undisclosed DNA will slash the costs of the broad
DNA collection in future, enable us to do more with less, and boost
the UK’s economic stature in two ways.
British companies can be the first to implement and sell the
services that can simultaneously perform several functions. We can
match relatives, enable a new channel of easy-to-use encrypted communication where you cannot lose the keys, track genetic changes
within a population, and also assuage privacy concerns.
Within the UK, these companies would pay patent fees that will
be part of the prices they charge to foreign customers: governments,
companies, and individuals. Full operation of Undisclosed DNA
yields widespread physical examples that will interest governments
abroad to safeguard genetic information. Anyone who wishes to remain compliant with their own versions of the GDPR will pay to
license British technology and the experts, who will concentrate in
Britain as a new industry develops.
The revenues will lift the economic output and so will provide
more tax to the government under the current rates. Additionally,
we anticipate high-value jobs and ways to address the bread-andbutter concerns of constituents as Britain moves away from coal and
older industries.
7 Squaring the Circle
Holders of political office have handled multiple contradictory demands and dealt with wild expectations. King Canute could not
command the ebb and flow of the tide, but it may feel as though that
is what the people want. As a result, some hard-pressed leaders in recent decades made outlandish promises to promote secure and ‘un8
hackable’ banking and communications that simultaneously provide ‘backdoors’ so that we can root out the terrorists.
Undisclosed DNA has shown that in the area of genetic information, it is feasible to boast widespread privacy whilst harnessing the power of massive data. An act of Parliament will ensure
that we have robust protocols to safeguard privacy and achieve our
goals when we begin to log the genetic information of all newborns in 2030.
Legal stipulations will not only ensure a safe and powerful
workflow for handling genetic information. They also point to a
potential way forward.
By successfully patenting its methods across many jurisdictions, Undisclosed DNA has shown that we can do now what once
seemed impossible. It carries the strengths of cryptography to the
world of biology. Because of the novelty of this application, the demands on companies were often impossible. Legislators would not
demand a non-existent process, and instead left matters unresolved
or placed fantastical burdens on companies to be perfect and never
get hacked or go out of business.
A law can demand that the government and private companies
alike will abide by guarantees that privacy breaches cannot happen.
Never will DNA have to face the same disaster as when the list of
Afghani collaborators got out. Undisclosed DNA shows the way.
8 Enacting Policy
The largest opportunity and challenge is the fact that genetic testing currently lacks the so-called iron triangle or something like it.
Signifying the golden time in which policy changes, officeholders,
the bureaucracy, and interest groups align. As of 2025, we do not
have a mass of politicians who are passionate on genetics, an office
of genetics, or lobbyists who have come to Parliament with rolls
of signatures.
MPs have a chance, however, to be more than simply a complementary and cooperative component of a movement. They can
lead the charge as the issue of genetic testing and tracking has not
captured everyone’s attention – not yet.
In 2030, every British hospital will have to work with the government to log everyone’s DNA, and overnight the issue will become extremely salient. With the common technology in use right
now, you can expect the implementation to invite vociferous debates on civil rights, privacy, costs, and the ultimate use. If you repeal the current legislation before it takes effect, you can anticipate
cries that the UK will lag its peers and restrict medical innovation.
We can require that genetic logging will both guard privacy and
speed up the bulk of its work through hashing. Undisclosed DNA
provides a ready solution through its methods.
Most significantly for any legislation on the topic, we do not
foresee opposition from powerful actors or corporations – or even
from the cautious who advise caution. In many legislatures around
the world, an upper body or some equivalent to the House of Lords
can serve as a ‘cooling-off room’ for deeper analysis.
The UK already passed the act to require the testing of all babies come 2030. Additional stipulations should specify that genetic
code is personally identifiable information and is therefore worthy
of protection under the GDPR. These measures should please anyone with qualms about the DNA dragnet.
The tools we spell out will not establish companies that will
compete against entrenched interests. Genetic companies and government agencies will only have to add a step to the harvesting of
DNA, but that task will pay for itself many times over in storage
costs, and it lowers the costs for work and eradicates most of the
dangers that come out of data breeches. Undisclosed DNA is only
a positive.
We need to specify how to responsibly implement the legislation that got Royal Assent earlier this year. Soon, we must register
the DNA of everyone born at a British hospital, but we lack a path
to get there. The clock is ticking. Parliament will meet widespread
scorn from the public if MPs fail to act before 1 January 2030.