Not satisfied by having our emails, chats, status updates, search histories, clicking behaviors, and shopping preferences, some of Silicon Valley’s most powerful tech titans are in an arms race to get access to your most personal information: your DNA. Last week, for instance, the M... [More]

  Of all the rumors ever to swirl around the world’s most valuable company, this may be the first that could involve spitting in a plastic cup.   Apple is collaborating with U.S. researchers to launch apps that would offer some iPhone owners the chance to get their D... [More]

  IBM has launched a health unit to make sense of the wealth of data created by the boom in fitness trackers and apps. Watson Health aims to create "a secure, cloud-based data sharing hub" that can feed analytic technologies, it said. It could provide diagnoses or health alerts which could... [More]

  What happens to our digital selves after we die? Our Airbnb properties might keep hosting strangers. Our Twitter feeds will live on in the Library of Congress as a permanent record of our weirdest musings. And on Facebook, our designated custodians can continue to manage our profiles afte... [More]

    Facebook generates about $8 a year in revenue from each of its users. But what if you offered a company not just your photos and updates, but your entire genome? Then you could be worth as much as $20,000. That’s my rough calculation for what Genentech could pay direct-t... [More]

  For more than a year, a group of cybercriminals has been pilfering email correspondence from more than 100 organizations — most of them publicly traded health care or pharmaceutical companies — apparently in pursuit of information significant enough to affect global financial m... [More]

Today it is easy for long-forgotten photos or personal information to live online indefinitely. But what if the most personal data about you – your genetic makeup – lived online? An individual's genome contains a vast amount of information about inherited diseases and physical tra... [More]

Our genetic codes — the string of nucleotide “letters” that comprise our genomes — contain information about which diseases we may be susceptible to, or, what health conditions we have a predisposition for. However, this information is not absolute; having a gene or series ... [More]

Edith Ramirez, the chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission, said on Monday that her agency will aggressively police companies with control over large databases of personal information. In a speech at the Technology Policy Institute's annual conference, she said that being able to store and ana... [More]

    Dr Helen Wallace, director of GeneWatch UK, warned at a MedConfidential event in London that, beyond electronically storing patient records, the next step for the UK is linking these records with DNA and genetic information on an all-in-one database. It is already public policy,... [More]