DNA is great. Speaking as a coder, DNA is the code that writes a human being !
Can DNA be used,
to search for family,
without breaching GDPR ?
DNA can be used to confirm family relationships.
DNA can also be used to search for family connections.
But how can this be done, without breaching GDPR ?
That is, how can DNA be used to confirm family relationships
or search for family connections,
without disclosing private & confidential DNA sequences ?
It can easily be argued that
your DNA sequence holds more medical information
about you than your entire medical history.
Indeed, it may also hold your medical future.
Do you want all & sundry knowing that ?
The higher the โlโ factor,
the better the match capabilities
but also the greater the leak of
confidential DNA sequence information.
The lower the โlโ factor,
the worse the match capabilities,
however, the less the leak of
confidential DNA sequence information.
BUT for any matching,
so it is said,
some sequence leakage MUST occur !
Partial solutions have been
to only compare against the exome or to
โfuzzyโ the respective sequences.
Both still leak private &
confidential DNA sequence information.
Only when โlโ equals zero is there
NO
DNA sequence leakage,
but also no matching capabilities.
If only we could get over the apparently
insurmountable โlโ factor problem,
- then it would become practical to,
- for example,
literally produce an algorithm enabling
the emailing of family,
without contact details
AND without disclosing
any DNA sequence.
The question is,
is the โlโ factor problem
in the same scientific category
as the quantum uncertainty principle
or the so-called NP problem ?
In fact,
even if one did disclose full DNA sequences,
the cross comparison itself hits the NP problem.
The reason I would make this argument,
with such certainty,
is because that is what I have achieved
and have had the patents granted. ๐
After all, it is an algorithmic problem,
DNA is code & I am a coder ! ๐
A pivotal component is a generic address,
otherwise known as a DNAddress,
which can be formatted as an email address,
for emailing family.
The patents include genetic cryptographic cross-check mechanisms,
- for the recipient to confirm relationship,
- still without sharing DNA sequences.
Licences, with know-how, is my offering.
