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Any DNA test providers you recommend? Preferably one that deletes your data / DNA after you're done with it.
by yellow_lead 5y ago
Any DNA test providers you recommend? Preferably one that deletes your data / DNA after you're done with it.
- _xri0 5y agoSee https://www.intellxxdna.com/ https://www.intellxxdna.com/
- nextaccountic 5y agoDo they store the dna in a database that law enforcement could, perhaps with a subpoena, have access to? Here's a video how law enforcement can get a match on a dna database through any of your relatives that did a dna test there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT18KJouHWg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT18KJouHWg This kind of thing creates a chilling effect in which people avoid getting the medical help they need just to not contribute with a permanent genetic database. This kind of stuff is exactly why HIPAA exists. Also: why did they give you a summary, but gave the doctors a full report? Could you get the full report if you asked them?
- jdavis703 5y ago> why did they give you a summary, but gave the doctors a full report? Could you get the full report if you asked them? If the tests aren’t FDA approved they probably don’t want to risk the regulatory ire that 23&Me encountered.
- nextaccountic 5y agoBut then why the doctors have access to it?
- jdavis703 5y agoI used 23&Me. They’re simple and cheap. And I’m not concerned about protection from legal searches here. We shed DNA everywhere we go. Law enforcement can go as far as picking up things like discarded cigarette butts a suspect tosses out their car to get a DNA match.
- yellow_lead 5y agoI don't think that's a fair comparison. Your DNA in a database is much different than your DNA needing to be individually targeted to be sampled.