Cloned Stallion - Pandoras Box?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4443881.stm

Dozens of known champion thoroughbreds are now lined up for cloning (a few stored skin cells is all it takes).

It should be transparently obvious by now that if you can clone sheep, stallions and whatnot else, then it should be just as easy to use this technique on humans (I'd be amazed if it has not been done secretly already).

Ok. So what, some may say, identical twins are clones etc etc but just think:

1)These techniques, once perfected I believe will not be difficult to replicate in thousands of labs across the globe, including some crackpot ones... just as invitro fertilisation is commonplace nowadays. Even now I'd venture if you are wealthy and determmined enough you could get it done for you.

2) More shockingly. All it takes is a few skin cells, a swab, some spittle as your starting raw material. How will you prevent someone stealing your genetic material to clone you... Do you own any rights to to your material or that of your loved ones? How would that be enforced?

3) Think of all the 'reasons' why people may want to clone other people including their enemies. I shiver when I think of the sick ones. In extremis I can just imagine some vile dictator somewhere cloning one of his enemies and subsequently venting his rage on the subsequent child... It does not bear thinking about.

Far out, huh?

I am not taking a stance on this here, I am not saying this should or not be regulated (or whether that would even work), merely commenting on the far reaching rammifications of these sorts of technologies....

Gosh, we, the human race have just started tinkering... I am half filled with wonder and dread when I think what the world could be like 2 centuries from now.... they will certainly look upon our times as cosy and simple in comparison to theirs.