Privacy, DNA and Artistic Expression: Artist stirs privacy debate with portraits from DNA (3:18)

[MADem]

There's video and it is worth a view:

http://www.reuters.com/video/2099/01/01/reuters-tv-video?videoId=243713123

July 1 - DNA extracted from cigarette butts and bubble gum found on the streets of Brooklyn is being used by artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg to create realistic portraits of anonymous New Yorkers. The artist says her project is designed to spark debate about the use - or potential misuse - of DNA profiling in society. Ben Gruber reports.

[MADem]

1. I must say that, given the Snowden brou-ha-ha, that this article has gotten so little

comment (i.e. NONE) is surprising to me....

There will come a day when DNA is sufficiently unravelled so that an "artist" can get a lot closer than a representation that looks like a "family resemblance."

Will everyone run round dressed in garbage bags with face shields and rubber gloves, to prevent the unwanted shedding of DNA?

This is fundamental privacy--not phone calls, not emails. This is "privacy" to the core of one's being...