捕捉人类环境DNA:伦理挑战

Nina F. de Groot
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2023年5月,有报道称,人类基因组信息可以相对容易地从空气或水等环境样本中不经意地捕获。人类和所有其他生物一样,会不断地脱落DNA片段。这种环境DNA有各种各样的潜在应用,例如在生物学上,但也用于刑事司法目的。然而,从这样的环境中获取人类DNA引发了伦理问题。本文探讨了人类环境DNA的一些关键伦理问题,特别是那些围绕同意、隐私、商品化和基因监控可能性的问题。本文认为,从数字数据保护辩论中获得的见解,特别是非基于个人的数据控制和治理方法,可以成为评估人类环境DNA的伦理、法律和政策方面的一个有价值的起点。由于我们到处留下基因的痕迹(就像我们在网上到处留下数字痕迹一样),寻求个人对所有这些信息的控制似乎不仅几乎不可能,而且在道德上也存在问题。因此,我们需要新的方法,如何最好地阐明和解决新的遗传信息处理技术带来的挑战。来自在线数字数据辩论的方法和概念,如群体隐私和预测隐私,可以为思考如何有效处理人类环境DNA提出的复杂问题提供有价值的方法。
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Capturing Human Environmental DNA: Ethical Challenges
Abstract In May 2023, it was reported that human genomic information can be captured relatively easy and inadvertently from environmental samples, such as air or water. Humans, as well as all other organisms, shed fragments of DNA continuously. There is a large variety of potential applications of such environmental DNA, for instance in biology, but also for criminal justice purposes. However, capturing human DNA from such environmental sources raises ethical issues. This article explores some key ethical issues of human environmental DNA, in particular those revolving around consent, privacy, commodification, and the possibility of genetic surveillance. The article suggests that insights from the digital data protection debate, in particular non-individual-based approaches to data control and governance, can be a valuable starting point for evaluating the ethical, legal, and policy aspects of human environmental DNA. As we leave genetic traces everywhere (just as we also leave digital traces everywhere online), seeking individual control over all of that information seems not only practically hardly possible, but also ethically problematic. Therefore, we need new approaches on how best to articulate and address the challenges that novel genetic information processing techniques bring about. Approaches and concepts from the online digital data debate, such as group privacy and predictive privacy, can offer a valuable way forward to think about how to effectively deal with the complex issues that human environmental DNA raises.
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