Genetic Bias Law Has Worked Perfectly, or Maybe Not at All

The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 established employee protections long before 23andMe and AncestryDNA made testing information available to the masses.

It was far enough ahead of its time, in fact, that there hasn’t been a single successful lawsuit alleging discrimination by an employer using genetic information in the more than 10 years since the law has been in effect, according to legal scholars. And only 12 GINA cases have been filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission—none since 2017—according to a Bloomberg Law analysis of federal district court dockets.

But if that makes GINA a non-factor as an ...