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Data privacy through participant empowerment

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Sharing of genomic data poses a problem due to privacy concerns and lack of individual’s choice in the matter. In this issue, researchers propose a framework for sharing data where the control lies with the individual.

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Fig. 1: Comparison between current practice and the proposed solution by Grishin and colleagues.

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Dankar, F.K. Data privacy through participant empowerment. Nat Comput Sci 1, 175–176 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43588-021-00047-6

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