Re House Republicans would let employers demand workers' genetic test results

["Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>]

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From: Mary Shaw <mary.shaw () gmail com>
Date: Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 8:28 PM
Subject: Re: [IP] Re House Republicans would let employers demand workers'
genetic test results
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>


John Oliver showed us how easy it is to found a religion.  Is there an
existing religion that holds genetic testing, or at least the sharing of
the results, to be sacreligious?  If not, or if its other principles are
not agreeable, can we found one?

Mary

On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 6:03 PM, Dave Farber <farber () gmail com> wrote:




Begin forwarded message:

*From:* Thomas Lord <lord () basiscraft com>
*Date:* March 10, 2017 at 4:41:13 PM EST
*To:* dave () farber net
*Cc:* ip <ip () listbox com>
*Subject:* *Re: [IP] House Republicans would let employers demand workers'
genetic test results*

This bit of snark made me chuckle but then raised a
question:

We need genetic testing of these GOP politicians

and their supporters, to help us separate those

animals from human beings.


I would be very interested in hearing some forensic
analysis from and also about the investors and
founders who pioneered the cheerful commercialization
of on-demand, cheap genetic testing.

That project of commercialization, and the discourse
used to promote it,  is surely what
added genetic testing to how capitalists think about
managing workforces, and how police and politicians
think about managing populations.   It is surely
from those commercialization efforts that the legislative
impulse originates.

Did people believe dystopian applications like that
now before us were inevitable or that they could be
avoided?  Did investors invest in preventing this
situation?  or mediating it? Do they see this as a
step towards utopia?  Or will they attempt to disrupt
what is now unfolding?

Now that we are approaching "GATTACA" (the movie)
scenarios, are any of the same people who brought
us here questioning how they can help dismantle
the power relations that are poised to make this
technology quite malevolent?


-t




On 2017-03-10 08:50, dfarber wrote:

Begin forwarded message:

FROM: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>

SUBJECT: [ NNSQUAD ] HOUSE REPUBLICANS WOULD LET EMPLOYERS DEMAND WORKERS'
GENETIC TEST RESULTS

DATE: March 10, 2017 at 11:30:56 AM EST

TO: nnsquad () nnsquad org

House Republicans would let employers demand workers' genetic test results

https://www.statnews.com/2017/03/10/workplace-wellness-genetic-testing/

Giving employers such power is now prohibited by legislation

including the 2008 genetic privacy and nondiscrimination law

known as GINA. The new bill gets around that landmark law by

stating explicitly that GINA and other protections do not

apply when genetic tests are part of a "workplace wellness"

program.  The bill, HR 1313, was approved by a House committee

on Wednesday, with all 22 Republicans supporting it and all 17

Democrats opposed. It has been overshadowed by the debate over

the House GOP proposal to repeal and replace the Affordable

Care Act, but the genetic testing bill is expected to be

folded into a second ACA-related measure containing a grab-bag

of provisions that do not affect federal spending, as the main

bill does.

- - -

We need genetic testing of these GOP politicians and their supporters, to

help us separate those animals from human beings.

--Lauren--

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