Sociotechnical safeguards for genomic data privacy

Z Wan, JW Hazel, EW Clayton, Y Vorobeychik… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Recent developments in a variety of sectors, including health care, research and the direct-
to-consumer industry, have led to a dramatic increase in the amount of genomic data that …

Ensuring privacy and security of genomic data and functionalities

A Mohammed Yakubu, YPP Chen - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
In recent times, the reduced cost of DNA sequencing has resulted in a plethora of genomic
data that is being used to advance biomedical research and improve clinical procedures …

Identification of individuals by trait prediction using whole-genome sequencing data

C Lippert, R Sabatini, MC Maher, EY Kang… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - pnas.org
Prediction of human physical traits and demographic information from genomic data
challenges privacy and data deidentification in personalized medicine. To explore the …

A scalable, secure, and interoperable platform for deep data-driven health management

A Bahmani, A Alavi, T Buergel, S Upadhyayula… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The large amount of biomedical data derived from wearable sensors, electronic health
records, and molecular profiling (eg, genomics data) is rapidly transforming our healthcare …

Protecting privacy and security of genomic data in i2b2 with homomorphic encryption and differential privacy

JL Raisaro, G Choi, S Pradervand… - … ACM transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Re-use of patients' health records can provide tremendous benefits for clinical research. Yet,
when researchers need to access sensitive/identifying data, such as genomic data, in order …

Attacks on genetic privacy via uploads to genealogical databases

MD Edge, G Coop - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetics services are increasingly popular, with tens of millions of
customers. Several DTC genealogy services allow users to upload genetic data to search for …

Open sharing of genomic data: Who does it and why?

T Haeusermann, B Greshake, A Blasimme, D Irdam… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
We explored the characteristics and motivations of people who, having obtained their
genetic or genomic data from Direct-To-Consumer genetic testing (DTC-GT) companies …

SoK: Managing risks of linkage attacks on data privacy

J Powar, AR Beresford - Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing …, 2023 - petsymposium.org
Novel attacks on dataset privacy are usually met with the same range of responses: surprise
that a route to information gain exists from information previously thought to be safe; …

Genome reconstruction attacks against genomic data-sharing beacons

K Ayoz, E Ayday, AE Cicek - Proceedings on Privacy …, 2021 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Sharing genome data in a privacy-preserving way stands as a major bottleneck in front of
the scientific progress promised by the big data era in genomics. A community-driven …

Re-identification of individuals in genomic datasets using public face images

R Venkatesaramani, BA Malin, Y Vorobeychik - Science advances, 2021 - science.org
Recent studies suggest that genomic data can be matched to images of human faces,
raising the concern that genomic data can be re-identified with relative ease. However, such …