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If you don't want your DNA searched in the GEDmatch database, then don't upload your DNA to GEDmatch.

• eberkund 7y ago
  You also have to ensure that none of your close relatives upload their DNA (very similar to yours) to the database either.
  • igetspam 7y ago
    I've tried. So very hard. And I failed. People, like my siblings and mother, see this as a game. They see no problem with giving a private company access to their most uniquely identifying information. They'd likely hand over their fingerprints and retina scans for a free photo of themselves doing it. My mother shreds every piece of mail but jumped on 23andme without hesitation. The world has become dumber and less concerned with personal information than some weird shared social experience. I'm not worried about the feds getting my data (ish) as much as I am about Bad Actors in the future. (I still very much want the government out of my business and personal life though.)
• mgleason_3 7y ago
  Easy to say, now that other kind folks have done the heavy lifting to find the problem and publish stories raising it and we've been lucky enough to stumble upon those stories. But, that of course is the problem. Awareness. But, should it be a problem? Shouldn't we have a basic right to privacy? We get sold on the need for police to catch "Murderers". But then its "attempted murder". Later it's "attempted violent crimes" 1). Will anyone be surprised when it starts being used by debt collectors to harass you or your relatives? How long after that before someone figures out how to use it to efficiently ID people with early dementia and to they can target and swindle them? 1) https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/10/genetic-genealogy-dna-database-criminal-investigations/599005/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/10/genetic-...