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why, what happened?
by exacube 11y ago
why, what happened?
- breitling 11y agoI remember reading somewhere that they share the DNA info with gov't agencies.
- calebm 11y agogattaca!
- cryoshon 11y agoProbably. Unfortunately, this precludes someone who is privacy-conscious from using these products, as cool as they may seem. I can't imagine how the government would put this information to anything other than malicious use. SNP sequencing is the ultimate fingerprint, far more individually identifying than anything else as of yet. Imagine having 900,000+ criterion to cross reference to determine identity.
- darkmighty 11y agoIf the gov't really want a DNA sample from you is it that hard to obtain? I understand this allows them to do it en masse though.
- calgoo 11y agoWhat happened was that the police was using some publicly available data to cross reference with cold cases. Then when they found a familiar match, the produced a warrant to get the identity of the family member that was registered. The main issue was that the info was available, so some tech just ran the comparison. However, it feels like it would be way to easy to request the information directly with a warrant and that's it. Using something like: "We need to save the women and children, here is a list of unidentified DNA samples, please compare them to all your database."
- Paul-ish 11y agoSNPs may be more identifying than fingerprints because they are correlated across related individuals.
- ajkjk 11y agoPresumably http://fusion.net/story/215204/law-enforcement-agencies-are-asking-ancestry-com-and-23andme-for-their-customers-dna/ http://fusion.net/story/215204/law-enforcement-agencies-are-..., which was posted on here a few days ago.
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