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>> But, I would never, ever send them my DNA attached to my identity. > Your DNA IS your identity, and sending it to them is sending them all the information e
by gherkin0 11y ago
>> But, I would never, ever send them my DNA attached to my identity.
> Your DNA IS your identity, and sending it to them is sending them all the information ever needed to identify you.
Not really: in the case the cops already have the DNA but it's useless to them because they don't know how to find the person it belongs to. If the cops found an (erroneous) match to sequence done anonymously, they would learn little to nothing that they could act on.
Now the game might be up if they got a family-member match on a non-anonymous relative, but there's little you can do about that.
- eveningcoffee 11y agoNow the game might be up if they got a family-member match on a non-anonymous relative, but there's little you can do about that. Of course you can. As parent above mentioned - you do not send your DNA. Plain and simple.
- gherkin0 11y agoI don't think so. Even if you never submit a sample, your bother could, and then they could get a match that tells them the DNA is from a sibling of your brother. It wouldn't finger you, exactly, but it would get them very close.
- eveningcoffee 11y agoOh. I see now. Thank you for the clarification! For some reason I had impression that it is about checker not having access to some ones DNA sample.