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I'm legally allowed to follow you in public and pick up hair or skin particles that fall off of you.

• johnnycab 7y ago
  NAL. The act of following someone with the express intent of collecting genetic material and then covertly sending it off to be processed, without any overall consent, might be considered legal in your jurisdiction. However, you will require a rigorously disciplined approach, in order to acquire a non-contaminated sample, not to mention the costs associated with this exercise ─ just in case, you had any designs of putting this idea on a pitch deck. Nevertheless, the above-mentioned debate is moot, especially when you consider the original point(s) made in the article, with regards to the vagaries of explicitly sharing your genetic data without first analysing the implications.
  • asdff 7y ago
    it really wouldn't be hard. person goes to a cafe, train station, and a store. grab probable hair sample from cafe, train station, and store. run pcr on 5 fingerprinting markers (kids do this in ap bio, not hard). if all three samplings match, that's probably your guy.