"56% of 500 people we interviewed said they are not willing to participate in the genomic revolution because they are concerned with their privacy" Daniel Uribe, Founder of Genobank More and more people are curious to know about their ancestry, epigenics, personalized medicine and risk factors to future diseases such as cancer. In the last few years, millions of people have bought their DNA studies through companies such as Ancestrydna or 23andme. What is not clear to them is that they are giving these DNA companies their consent to sell this information, for example, to Pharma companies, who promise to use this information to make better medication. But how can we be assured our personal information is kept private? The good news is that 99% of humans have not been sequenced yet, so there is time to fix this. I met Daniel at a Blockchain conference here in Valencia. I was pregnant and I wanted to know more about the anonymity protection for sperm and egg donors. I bought sperm from a non-anonymous donor in the US and I wanted to understand more about how much protection goes around this kind of thing. Some egg or sperm donors choose to be anonymous and others are ok with being “non-anonymous”. But is their anonymity really protected now that you can get your DNA matched with your biological relatives through these DNA service companies? Genobank came to offer privacy over your personal information in this puzzle.And that’s what Daniel and I are talking about in this episode of the “inspiring careers podcast”. He tells me why he left Mexico to live in Palo Alto, California. And how he decided to invest in a higher Education going to schools such as IPADE, Singularity and Stanford. [[[[[[[[[[(xxx) In the end we’ll have two groups: the elite companies who care and offer privacy options and the bigger mass open ones who will serve those who are uninformed or want to pay less.(xxx) soon every one will be able to discover their biological origin in a decentralized way, placing your genomic info in an encrypted way, without exposing yourself, but finding your relative. Both will have to consent before they are matched"[[[[Quotes[[[LINKS Daniel Uribe on LinkedIn Daniel Uribe's company, Genobank.io 23andme AncestryDNA DNA companies sell information to Pharma Giant PayPal 7 Eleven Facebook GDPR CRISPR Mendelian diseases IPADE Business School Singularity University David Ortega on the Inspiring Careers Podcast episode Sun Microsystems Oracle