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Imagine a world where mosquito-sized robots fly around stealing samples of your DNA.

Or where a department store knows from your buying habits that you’re pregnant even before your family does.

That is the terrifying dystopian world portrayed by a group of Harvard professors at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, where the assembled elite heard that the notion of individual privacy is effectively dead.

Imagine a world where mosquito-sized robots fly around stealing samples of your DNA – hat is the terrifying dystopian world portrayed at Davos ‘Welcome to today. We’re already in that world,’ said Margo Seltzer, a professor in computer science at Harvard University.

‘Privacy as we knew it in the past is no longer feasible… How we conventionally think of privacy is dead,’ she added.

Experts predict technology will lead to:

Mosquito-sized robots fly around stealing samples of your DNA

Department stores knowing from your buying habits that you’re pregnant even before your family does

Governments are talking about putting in back doors for communication

Another Harvard researcher into genetics said it was ‘inevitable’ that one’s personal genetic information would enter more and more into the public sphere.

Sophia Roosth said intelligence agents were already asked to collect genetic information on foreign leaders to determine things like susceptibility to disease and life expectancy.

‘We are at the dawn of the age of genetic McCarthyism,’ she said, referring to witch-hunts against Communists in 1950s America.

What’s more, Seltzer imagined a world in which tiny robot drones flew around, the size of mosquitoes, extracting a sample of your DNA for analysis by, say, the government or an insurance firm.

Invasions of privacy are ‘going to become more pervasive,’ she predicted.

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