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Ooh, this is such a good point that I hadn't thought about. You would want everyone related to you to do this, too. And of course, no matter how hard you work,
by vessenes 11y ago
Ooh, this is such a good point that I hadn't thought about. You would want everyone related to you to do this, too. And of course, no matter how hard you work, you won't be able to catch dad's secret attic family, or your surprise second cousin.
I'd like to impute more health and longevity goals to 23andme than just imagine it's a giant government DNA-gathering corporation. But, I bet you're right -- it's just not tenable to hide enough information about myself AND all my family members that I couldn't be ID'ed by a junior data scientist / low-end neural network.
- jacquesm 11y agoYou got it. That's the whole problem with all these partial DNA databases, it's a matter of time before they get combined and then your future relatives are no longer anonymous either. It's a real hornets nest. That's why I'm against taking DNA from inmates, it not only takes their DNA but their extended family is immediately partially identifiable as well and they get no say in the matter.