FBI criminal data includes DNA collected from the convicted as well as the accused. Infant blood tests are stored in databases. California alone has more than seven million in its repository. An individual's rights should include informed consent to genetic screening. People have been denied health insurance because of genetic screening.
Genetic discrimination is the other major civil liberty threatened by genetics research.
Such indignities are never foisted upon the ruling class by the masses. An HMO stated it would pay for an abortion of a fetus carrying a genetic disorder, but not provide coverage if born. Healthy people were denied coverage despite their disease prevention measures. A healthy woman, who casually mentioned to her family doctor that her father had been diagnosed with Huntington's disease, and that she herself was at risk for inheriting this genetic disorder, was later denied disability insurance. The insurance company rejected her because they found a note about her father's diagnosis written in the margin of her medical records.