Good morning. Let's get the week started with your Monday Digest.

1. Efforts underway to tighten laws regarding your DNA.  At-home DNA tests promise a lot. There are kits that use your genetic code to find long lost relatives and detect possible diseases early. Some tests vow they’ll figure out the best weight loss plan, hair and skin products — even the perfect glass of wine — for your genetic specifications. But, as these tests become more popular, some groups and lawmakers are starting to wonder: What if your DNA data gets into the wrong hands? "Imagine if you're up for a job and your prospective employer finds out you're predisposed to an expensive disease such as multiple sclerosis,” said Peter Pitts, a former associate commissioner at the Food and Drug Administration who now runs a think tank called the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest. “Imagine if you're running for president and your opponents find out because of your DNA test that you're predisposed to Alzheimer's disease, and they think that's something the public should know." Lawmakers in Congress and in statehouses across the nation are imagining what could happen and taking steps to ensure the worst doesn’t. In Minnesota, big players in the genetic testing business — Ancestry and 23andMe — hired lobbying power in May and legislators have drafted bills that they say will tighten consumer protections for Minnesotans submitting their DNA. ( MPR News)

2. Election interference warnings raise stakes for 2020.  New revelations that all 50 states had their voting systems targeted by Russians in 2016 and that more foreign actors are waging online disinformation campaigns are adding fresh urgency to state efforts to safeguard the 2020 vote. “The stakes are very high and I feel that every day,” said Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon, who met last week with state officials tasked with reviewing election security strategies before absentee primary voting starts in January. “No secretary of state can guarantee success. What we can guarantee is that we will try to minimize risks. But we’re in a fight here apparently with nation states.” Special Counsel Robert Mueller warned Congress last week that Russia’s “sweeping and systematic” campaign to disrupt the 2016 election was not a mere one-off attempt: “They’re doing it as we sit here, and they expect to do it during the next campaign.” (Star Tribune)

3. Trump making Omar a campaign issue as he tries to take Minnesota.  Phillip Hilleshiem will vote for Donald Trump in 2020, just like he did in 2016. But that doesn’t mean he likes everything the president does and says. Among the things that make him uneasy are Trump’s attacks on U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and three other House freshmen who are women of color. The president “can be kind of crude and sometimes racist and rude,” Hilleshiem said. But he doesn’t think Trump “intends to be racist. I think it’s the situations he’s put in, and things don’t always relay as well as they should.” Hilleshiem, a 26-year-old hotel desk clerk from Elgin, Minn., was at the Olmsted County Fair, a popular crossroads in a county that Trump barely lost in 2016 and would likely need to win in 2020 if he hopes to flip Minnesota. Interviews with fairgoers last week revealed a partisan split over the Omar feud, which began with a July 14 Trump tweet urging the women to “go back” to the countries they came from and stop “viciously” vilifying him. Democrats are appalled. “I feel insulted because no one deserves to be treated that way,” said Sigrid Trimble, 70, who was demonstrating how to spin wool into yarn. (Star Tribune)