The rules that regulate data storage vary around the world. A hot topic on the web. How long exactly data processing and storage companies have to keep them in their facilities before deleting them? This is an open issue not only to smaller data centers, but to big Internet players such as Google and Microsoft as well.
While researching on this core topic for Swiss DNA Bank, I stumbled across a statement by Brad Smith, senior vice president for Microsoft, who claims that a major overhaul in the way that electronic data is stored is needed. The problem roots in diverging ruling from country to country. Whilst one could only ask for data to be saved for six months, another could rule for a year’s storage. “If that’s the case, it’s very difficult to locate a data centre in one country and provide that service to consumers in another country” he explained.
There are too many standards around the world, making the situation confusing and leaving users with little, if none, assurance on how long their data will be preserved.
Of course, at Swiss DNA Bank we solved the problem by giving our users the unique Forever Storage guarantee thanks to our Perpetual Financial Engine. But I’ll definitely keep an eye on the subject and keep you posted.
Luca Boschin
COO Swiss DNA Bank
How on the world for heavens’s sake you people can possibly
phisically preserve DNA forever?DNA is molecule wich degrades
in time.Otherwise we could have Cleopatra alive,cloned,among us. Do you make it immersed in formaline,terpentine oil,salt water,coca colla?
Som resin?
The problem is that doas not exist”forewer”physically for DNA molecule because cosmic radiation within few thousand of years will destroy even
for ethernity “packed”DNA molecules.
Digital data storage of DNA is ofcours possible.And what you gys targeting is probably possibility to recreate,in the lab, DNA at will when you learn
how to do it?But it is one tricky bussines.That,to learn how to transform
digital DNA data into real molecule wich can be operating in genetic sense.
If you tell me how do you do “packing”DNA molekules for ethernity I will
bring to you at list twenty person to your DNA bank and I will be first
before all of them to sign up contract with your DNA bank.
Can you make me shore that my DNA will remain intact forewer?You can not.
Nice tray.I am sceptic because I am using my brain.
Best regards,
Dean,
Hello Dean!
DNA is actually an extremely stable molecule, just think that scientists were able to extract mitochondrial DNA from a Neanderthal fossil (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal).
We cannot preview how future DNA technology is going to develop, but we want to be sure to preserve as much as possible of a person’s life.
Today at the end of our life we waste most of our knowledge, experience and biological information.
Why not preserving as much as we can and as best as we can of this precious data that will certainly help our future generations…