WHY IS IT WATCHING YOU?

 

Fingerprint- and DNA-profile databases contain very little personalizing information, and therefore present little actual threat to your privacy. If you are ever the perpetrator or the victim of a crime, they could be used to identify you, but the potential for abuse is fairly low. Likewise, footprint evidence is generally only taken from a crime scene. Law enforcement agencies keep databases for the purpose of identifying footwear, but there is no permanent database recording individual footprints. Even if there were, it could only be used for the same purposes as a database of DNA profiles or fingerprints. For once, The Man is being honest when he says he’s using the information he gathers to keep
you safe.

At the moment, no one is really using full gene sequencing to watch you. It is the province of genealogy hobbyists and people interested in their likelihood of getting certain diseases. When you pay a company to sequence your genome, that information is turned over to you and the samples you provided are destroyed. If a company does retain your sequence, it does so anonymously.