11/10/2030

TODAY’S NEWS
Young Girl
Saved By
Stranger in
Africa
If it had been 2019, Lauren Cord
would have died. But today, she is
alive, and thriving, because of
DNAtion, a database that shares the
DNA of almost every individual on
the planet, allowing doctors to easily find markers and trends to better treat patients. On the evening
of Friday November 11th, 10 year old Lauren Cord suffered an unexpected kidney failure. In this day
and age, however, everybody’s DNA is shared through an integrated system, so the system
automatically paired her with an individual in Africa with her same blood type and similar DNA,
ensuring that the kidney transfer would go smoothly and that her body would accept the transfer.
Doctors had to do minimal work to find all the data, as it was stored in one place, and easily
accessible for them. However, because all of everybody’s data is in one place, it is crucial that privacy
is secure and well implemented. The more integration, the more data there is to be leaked, and
therefore the better privacy structures must be. Cord’s doctors were able to enter her name into the
database, and the algorithm paired her immediately with someone in Africa, Emily Johnson, and she
was immediately notified. With the transportation available today, Johnson was able to undergo
surgery in less than five minutes, and her kidney was on its way to America just five short minutes
after the procedure. The doctors reported that Cord had three minutes to spare, before her failed

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kidney would begin to impede on her other organs. If it were
not for the system and integration, the doctors would not be
able to find the individual in Africa, and Cord would have
passed away. It is not only the integration that allowed for this
to happen, however. In this day and age, privacy is established
in a safe and secure way; keeping a database with each
individual’s DNA is efficient and does not impede on one’s
dignity or privacy. The high valuing of privacy ensured that
each person’s DNA was protected, and also encouraged people
to share their DNA, as it would be used only to benefit society.
Prior to the current year of 2030, DNA and privacy were
sensitive topics. Privacy was largely a one dimensional
consideration; people viewed their privacy as something
simply either given up or kept. When sharing their information
and data such as DNA, they viewed this as giving up their
privacy entirely, because of how privacy was viewed by large
companies such as DNAtion. Companies did not value privacy,
and subsequently were not rewarded for good implementations
of privacy. Companies purely valued financial success; the
entire market did not value privacy, and poor privacy did not
result in punishments for the company, a large issue. Large,
successful companies of the time such as Facebook and Uber
did not value privacy, and experienced multiple violations that
were not financially detrimental to the company as a whole. In
spite of the negative consequences for the victims, Facebook
continuously collected their users’ data, and marketed
specifically towards individuals, against both governmental
policies and their own explicitly stated policies. However, they
continued to grow and prosper, remaining one of the largest
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companies in the world. Some people cared, but not enough to make a change or to stop using the
service the companies provided. Because of this, the companies continued to collect peoples’ data
immorally, regardless of privacy concerns, and used it to benefit the companies, all while still
remaining popular.
However, From 2019 to 2030, two fundamental changes in society were implemented. The
first is that people started to care; when the hacking and leakage of their data and personal
information occurred, they stopped using services like Facebook. So when companies did not change
their ways, as they had previously not been hurt, Facebook lost a huge proportion of their constant
base. As a result, the companies failed, and were forced to make a change. The second change, and
arguably the more important, is that a legal framework that valued privacy was implemented. Bad
actors in the market were punished for their actions; today, they are not allowed to share data of any
sort, and are largely punished for any actions that may put people’s privacy or dignity at risk.
Companies that fail to obey these restrictions suffer commercially painful restrictions. These
restrictions dramatically reduce the desire of collecting data recklessly and using it for commercial
gain, as companies had previously done.
Privacy, as developed in the recent years, is not a one dimensional system as previously
thought. Similar to how Siegel stated at the beginning of the century that the self is composed of
multiple dimensions, privacy is made up of several layers. It does not only involve good or bad
implementations of security that allow for people to give away their data, it is also about how people
value their own privacy, and how this affects their own sense of self and identity. Privacy and dignity
are largely related; people have dignity, and the right to keep what they want private. As Siegel stated,
the idea of the self dates back to the 16th century Europe, where “lives revolved almost wholly in the
compass of their local and familial relations,” representative of the relational aspect. Just as Siegel
expanded the definition of ‘self’, so too has society’s definition of privacy broadened. How people are
viewed in society affects their sense of self; the reflective dimension, as Siegel states, allows people to
step back and view themselves from a third person view. However, the system of trust in the system
and trust that the system values privacy is what ultimately affects what is shared and what is not. If
people believe that the framework in place values their privacy and will protect it accordingly, they
will allow their information to be shared, to everyone’s benefits. In today’s day and age, the system in

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place greatly values the privacy of each individual, with an established legal framework to punish any
bad actors in the system. For this reason, a company like DNAtion exists, where everyone feels safe
in sharing their DNA on this network, to aid both doctors and patients. If not for the legal framework
and technology platform that supported and reinforced society’s values, this database would not have
existed, and Lauren Cord would have died at the tender age of 10.

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