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John Cornyn: “What's to protect individuals from outsourcing of some of…”

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Senator John Cornyn Questions 23andMe and Experts on Genetic Data Security and National Security Risks

Published | Video Starts at 04:00

Has not been any breaches at LabCorp, which has affected our data. Professor Cohen, there's. Generally speaking, if there is genetic information supplied in the. Along the Same lines as 23andMe, What's to protect individuals from outsourcing of some of that testing to, let's say, labs in China? I don't think there's much, Senator. And Professor Klein, what you, you said this is a national security vulnerability. Why is that? Why would China, the Chinese Communist Party, want the genetic information on Americans? (04:00–04:08)

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Questions the protection against outsourcing genetic testing to foreign labs.

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