Greg Murphy: “Today I would like to bring attention to a troubling assessment that was issued by the National Counterintelligence and…”

“Today I would like to bring attention to a troubling assessment that was issued by the National Counterintelligence and Security Center on Monday. China continues to aggressively seek to acquire Americans' genetic information. They have targeted American hotels. They have targeted government agencies, as well as our universities, through hacks and ill-intentioned partnerships. They recently even tried to buy fertility clinics in the United States to gather American DNA. And as was catalogued on ``60 Minutes'' last week, the Chinese are now targeting family research databases that Americans innocently use to research their family trees. Make no mistake, our healthcare information can be and will be used against us. The Chinese have already demonstrated the lengths to which they are willing to go to use genetics against their own people as they experiment on the Uighurs in the Xinjiang province. This threat cannot be ignored. China has already received personally identifying information on most Americans. As citizens, we must take better control of our information, and Congress must act to keep this problem from getting worse. ____________________”