This company says it’s developing a system that can recognize your face from just your DNA

Image by qimono via Pixabay. Article by Tate Ryan-Mosley. MIT Technology Review – January 31, 2022.

Though it almost certainly won’t work, it is a telling sign of where the field is heading

A police officer is at the scene of a murder. No witnesses. No camera footage. No obvious suspects or motives. Just a bit of hair on the sleeve of the victim’s jacket. DNA from the cells of one strand is copied and compared against a database. No match comes back, and the case goes cold. […]

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