An interdisciplinary perspective on the physical, informational and dignitary dimensions of genetic privacy suggests that an expectation of privacy expectation in the kaleidoscope of identity that is in out-of-body DNA. Using linguistic theory on the use of metaphors, the article also examines the use of DNA metaphors in popular culture as a reference point to explain a number of features of core identity in contrast to the superficiality of fingerprint metaphors. Popular culture’s frequent uses of DNA as a reference point reverberate in a way that suggests that society does recognize as reasonable an expectation of privacy in DNA.
