Has Google finally stepped over the “Do No Evil” line?

Over the past few months, Google has invested in two DNA-mapping companies: 23andMe (a company created by Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s wife) and Navigenics, which maps genetic data and screens for anomalies. In theory, information of a predisposition towards a certain disease could be made available to a physician so they could monitor a patient’s health more specifically.

This touches many nerve-endings, including privacy, data retention policy, HIPAA, and healthy distrust of a large corporation dedicated to exposing data about people to advertisers.

As Google says on its corporate info page, “Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” But when that includes information about the blueprint that uniquely identifies you, made available to those who would benefit from additional information about your past, present and future, have they gone too far?
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