Google has been nominated for the 2006 Captain Hook Awards for Worst Corporate Offender:
Google are reportedly making their massive computing power available to the J Craig Venter Foundation for gene sequencing to generate a gene catalogue for all the genes on the planet. Individual users will then input their own genetic sequence for a read out of their genetic predispositions analyzed against the existing database.
The supposed link between Google and the Venter Foundation is old news and unconfirmed. Organizers of the Captain Hook Awards are accusing Google and the Venter Foundation of attempting to monopolize all genetic information – …read more