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Your Personal Data Is On Your Phone -- In the Form of Bacteria

Posted by Unknown on from the never-borrowing-a-phone-again dept.

jfruh (300774) writes "Yes, we all know that we have a lot of personally identifying information on our phones that maybe we shouldn't. But even if our data is locked down and encrypted, we're all leaving biological footprints on our phones, which are basically extensions of our personal bacterial ecosystem. A study has concluded that phones could be a less invasive source of information in studying individual microbiomes than current techniques."

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  1. Just leave my microbiome alone by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't want to be tracked: I don't want my personal data stored and dissected in Google's servers, I don't want my fingerprints filed in some government agency's database, I don't want my DNA sequenced and recorded anywhere, and I don't want my microbiome analyzed.

    I don't want to, but I have no choice apparently. Anonymity is going the way of the dodos. Fuck I hate this world...

    --
    "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
    1. Re:Just leave my microbiome alone by LordLimecat · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I don't want to, but I have no choice apparently

      Sure you do; you just (apparently) want to use sites with AdSense too much to stop using them.

      Also, noone is sequencing your DNA for marketing purposes, I promise you.

      Anonymity is going the way of the dodos.

      Only if you care so little as to not take steps to achieve anonymity, sure.