DAVOS: Harvard professors warn 'privacy is dead' and predict mosquito-sized robots that steal samples of your DNA

'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.

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.

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