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Reading through (and paraphrasing) all the great ideas people have posted here, I'm seeing 3 basic theories: a fraud/scam, a criminal investigation, or activism
by mysterypie 8y ago
Reading through (and paraphrasing) all the great ideas people have posted here, I'm seeing 3 basic theories: a fraud/scam, a criminal investigation, or activism.
- FRAUD/SCAM. Example: a dishonest health care provider does expensive screening tests on poor Medicaid-eligible people which it then bills to Medicaid (i.e., to the government).
- CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION. Somebody is collecting DNA in targeted neighborhoods hoping to get the DNA of someone related to an unknown perpetrator whose DNA they have from a crime scene. This is essentially how the Golden State Killer was caught.
- ACTIVISM. This might be also called a "social media experiment" or culture jamming. It could be, for example, a subversive critique on the creation of DNA databases or an attempt to convince the public that mass collection of DNA is not a good thing.
- brador 8y agoOther possibilities: organ “donations”, budget blood transfusion matching for life extension, viral genoc precursor, illegal/unethical invasive experiments. Someone is repeatedly targeting poor/vulnerable people for their DNA and lying about uses. Someone has an upstream use for that data that pays or saves big money, is illegal, or is unethical. They’re hiding for some reason.