Ethical and big data issues in genome sequencing

A recent news "tidbit" from WiredUK brings up some issues that are probably in many people's minds as we continue to utilize highly precise genome sequencing - privacy, ethics, and a personal interest of mine, big data. Article here: http://www.wired.co.uk/article/precision-medicine

As genome sequencing gets faster and cheaper, it becomes more accessible to more people on a more frequent basis. How do we store all of that data? Should we be storing that data? Does your genetic fingerprint count as PII?? As usual, legal and ethical framework lags behind science. But, unusually in this case, so does data storage. With data storage comes issues of security, etc. Food for thought!

-Kim Foecke