Page 2 of 2 --  “Your DNA is like your house, it’s as private as
you can get,” said Sheldon Krimsky, professor of urban and
environmental policy at Tufts University and author of the book
“Genetic Justice.” “It has information about you, your family,
your siblings. I think individuals, if given an understanding of
what’s in their DNA, would have an expressed expectation of
privacy.”  One proposal for how far privacy law should protect
our DNA came recently from David Gusella, a third-year law
student at Boston College. In an article in the Boston College
Law Review in March, he pointed out that when police pick up
abandoned DNA, there should be a clear limit to the information
they can draw from it. They should be allowed to sequence it for
traits related to appearance (because, he argued, we can’t
reasonably expect our appearance to remain private when we step
out in public) but not anything beyond that. Other scholars
argue, however, that it’s more effective to set limits on when
the police can even collect