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Genetic Stalking and Voyeurism: A New Challenge to Privacy.

Year: 2009

Type: article

Abstract: A new website has just been launched with the URL of www.celebritygenetics.com (“Celebrity Genetics”). 1 Designed to appeal to the public’s seemingly insatiable appetite for information about celebrities, 2 Celebrity Genetics sells genetic information about hundreds of entertainers, politicians, athletes, and other public figures. For a fee ranging from twenty dollars to several hundred dollars, individuals and commercial publishers (such as blogs and tabloids) can purchase genetic information about selected celebrities, such as relatedness to other celebrities (e.g., paternity); ancestral place of origin; cognitive ability; behavioral genetic profile (e.g., genetic contribution to sexual orientation, propensity to addiction, and degree of risk-seeking behavior); and predisposition to various illnesses.

Source: PubMed

DOI: 10.17161/1808.20088

Author: Mark A Rothstein

Institution: University of Louisville

Language: English

Topic: Medical and Health Sciences Research

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Award: Center for Environmental Genomics and Integrative Biology