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Committee hears 'Genomic Security Act' to keep sequencing data and some equipment in U.S.
Summary
Sen. Daniel Zolnicov told the committee the bill would bar use of certain foreign adversary sequencing technologies and require genetic sequencing information collected in Montana to be stored in the United States; the Department of Justice's consumer-protection bureau supported the measure, citing examples of foreign-controlled firms storing sequencing data abroad.
Sen. Daniel Zolnicov introduced Senate Bill 410, calling it the "Genomic Security Act," and framed the measure as a response to concerns that genomic-sequencing technologies and equipment from foreign-adversary firms can be backdoored and used for intelligence purposes. "This bill is the Genomic Security Act saying that any genomic, sorry, genetic sequencing information it has to be maintained in this country," he told the committee.
Zolnicov described a broader national effort to replace potentially compromised telecommunications and infrastructure equipment and said similar threats exist for genomic sequencing hardware and…
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