An anonymous organization called the Earnest Project announced the sale of DNA samples from world leaders and
The group collected these items in an online catalog, hecontains napkins, paper coffee cups, a glass jar for perfume, butts and other items. A strand of human hair costs from 1 to 3 thousand dollars. The cost of the used breakfast fork is estimated at 36 thousand dollars, and a glass of wine - up to 65 thousand dollars. None of the items are signed with a specific name, but group members are ready to tell potential buyers about this.
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The project plans to hold an auction to sellsubjects to raise awareness of “surveillance capitalism” and oppose the practice of monetizing people's personal data. They fear that users' genetic data may ultimately end up in the hands of companies such as Facebook and Google, which are already collecting a large amount of data.
“Gathering and selling vital andconfidential data collected from the most powerful people on the planet, we hope to stimulate a reaction against the sale of personal data, ”the project representative told OneZero in an email. “We are constantly storing our DNA around us. As soon as you start to pay attention to this, it is very easy to become a target for data collection. ”