*Prenatal test developed with Chinese military stores gene data of millions of women.* The company will have to provide this data to the Chinese government if demanded — officially "if necessary for national security", but in practice in China there is no such thing as refusing.

The US considers it a threat to US national security for a Chinese company to collect world-wide genetic data, especially about Americans. I agree. However, China is not the only government that can collect DNA, sequence it, and use the data against people. Any government could.

The UK has a system to collect the DNA of every newborn baby. Over time, that will grow into a national genetic database. This is dangerous too. And, unlike the Chinese company, this system does not try to anonymize people. (As we know, anonymized data is easier to deanonymize than one tends to suppose.)

Correlating people's DNA with medical problems can do wonders for medical research. We need to develop a system to make this possible while protecting privacy.

*U.S. considers visas for vulnerable Afghan women after military exit.*

Please don't spend too much time considering it — it will be needed soon.

Cops in Haiti say they have shot several people and captured several, and assert they are some of the group that killed President Moise.

Others say that Moise's own bodyguards shot him.

It may not be easy to find out who really did it, in the chaotic environment of Haiti where corruption and dishonesty prevail.

If Republicans succeed in rigging the 2022 election, they will turn the US into the same sort of place.

US citizens: join the Sunrise Movement's national day of action (July 15) for government action to save Earth's climate.

US citizens: call on Biden to let 4,000 low-risk federal prisoners, already released, finish their sentences at home rather than making them return to prison

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