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You can't protect your DNA once you take one of these tests. If a relative takes it and uses their real identity, then it can eventually be associated with you
by meowster 6y ago
You can't protect your DNA once you take one of these tests. If a relative takes it and uses their real identity, then it can eventually be associated with your identity.
Even if you never take the test, but a relative does, your privacy is compromised.
The best thing you can do is ask your family members not to take it.
Hopefully none of you are crimimals, but it just goes to show:
> Law enforcement famously used crime-scene DNA that was shared with a genealogical research site to track down a suspect in the Golden State killer case, even though he never used a DNA test himself.