On the other end of the spectrum, some argue that overprotection stands in the way of progress. In the U.S., privacy is a huge issue because people fear discrimination from insurance companies and employers, or being discriminated against based on precise knowledge of one's predisposition to disease. What genetics predicts is a much finer version than what, for example, an actuary at an insurance company does, whose objective is to use applied math to figure out one's chances of living to a certain age. That's the worst thing you can do. You're trading privacy for dying a lot earlier.
Gibbons acknowledges that fears of misuse of information are legitimate and real.