By: Futurism
Dec 27, 2019
High-ranking Pentagon officials have asked members of the military to stop using consumer DNA tests, such as 23andMe or Ancestry, as they are a potential threat to national security.
On Monday, Yahoo News reported that it had obtained a copy of a memo signed by two top military officials — Joseph Kernan, undersecretary of defense for intelligence, and James Stewart, assistant secretary of defense for manpower — and distributed widely throughout the military.
In the memo, the officials write that they don’t trust the companies with all that private health information, citing the lack of regulations in the consumer DNA industry.