Francis Collins Quotes
A cardinal principle that we must not stray from - no exceptions - is that your genetic information is your business in terms of who sees it. Nobody should be gaining access to that information without your explicit permission, and nobody should be requiring you to take a genetic test unless you decide that that's what you want to do.
Collins, Francis. "Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act." National Institutes of Health, 2008.
He was referring to all the data that health insurance companies, retail stores, vendors such as Amazon.com, credit reporting companies, maintain on most Americans. He made the pint that private sources maintain much more private information on Americans than does the government. People acquiesce as they perceive some benefit.
Israel, like the UK, does not have a constitution or bill of rights per se, and laws passed by the Knesset serve the role of enumerating rights.
In Russia, with its authoritarian tradition and secret police, people have little expectation of privacy. Kaspersky was here referring to Europe and America as well as Russia.
Francis Sellers Collins ForMemRS is an American physician-geneticist who discovered the genes associated with a number of diseases and led the Human Genome Project. He is director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, United States.
