Google invests in genetics firm

Google has taken a stake in a biotech company co-founded by the wife of one of the search engine giant’s bosses.

According to a report in the Financial Times, chief executive Eric Schmidt said Google believes personal information will be one of the firm’s key avenues of future expansion.

“The algorithms will get better and we will get better at personalisation,” he was quoted as saying.

“The goal is to enable Google users to be able to ask the question such as ‘What shall I do tomorrow?’ and ‘What job shall I take?’”

my emails (those sent to other’s gmail accounts), my web history, and now potentially my dna – all linked tidily together to one account. which of course the government will *never* be able to touch

it’s not that i don’t trust google (or even whoever google may sell that info to) – it’s that i don’t trust my government to stay *out* of google. i don’t trust my government any further than i can throw dick cheney.

link my genetic fingerprint to that account? no thanks.

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