# Genetic Privacy **Domain:** Genomics / Privacy / Rights **Doc Type:** Canonical Rights Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Genetic privacy** concerns control, confidentiality and appropriate use of information derived from genetic material. ## Evolutionary Nexus Consumer ancestry services sit downstream of the genomic methods in [[articles/The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley|The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley]]. The same sequence that supports descent inference can expose health risks and family relationships. ## Rights Context Genetic data is relational: one person's disclosure reveals information about others who did not consent. Protection therefore requires limits on secondary use, reidentification, law-enforcement access, sale and indefinite retention. ## See Also [[wiki/Consumer Ancestry Testing|Consumer Ancestry Testing]], [[wiki/Haplogroup|Haplogroup]], [[wiki/Provenance|Provenance]], [[wiki/Rights|Rights]]