United-by-DNA is a company based in Anchorage, Alaska, that…
United-by-DNA is a company based in Anchorage, Alaska, that sequences individual’s DNA for a fee of $69.99. Sophia Schmitz, the CEO of the company, hopes to find a way to assist with cancer research after her mother is diagnosed with liver cancer. Sophia instructs her research committee to scrape publicly available resources looking for the names of people diagnosed with liver cancer in Belgium and Germany. Sophia plans to attempt to link these names to their relatives in the United-by-DNA database to help determine if genetics plays a part in those who contract liver cancer. Sophia intends to sell the results of the search on United-by-DNA. One of the members of the research committee has taken this privacy class. Which of these is the most important concern this privacy student might raise?