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>To protect your privacy... You can't really expect too much privacy with a DNA type test, right? Since it knows all of your relatives who have also (or will e
by floxy 4y ago
>To protect your privacy...
You can't really expect too much privacy with a DNA type test, right? Since it knows all of your relatives who have also (or will ever) taken the test.
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoEven if they correlate your test results to your relatives, so what? If you’ve used a fake name and mailbox, they can’t know who you are. You’re just a set of AGCT encodings.
- floxy 4y agoThe paper this article discuss is already more than 4 years old: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/you-could-be-identified-through-genealogy-databaseeven-if-your-dna-hasnt-been-tested-180970532/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/you-could-be-ident... ...the odds of being positively identified by your DNA is or soon will be almost certain.
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoYou’re missing a key part of that article: > a good sleuth could construct a family tree and then conduct more targeted research that might lead to someone who had never submitted his or her DNA for testing, as was the case with the Golden State Killer So this assumes the sleuth does “targeted research”. That’s only going to happen in things like criminal cases or other cases of big interest. It’s not going to happen to someone like me, an average Joe who has no one looking for him but is looking to protect his privacy by attaching a fake name and address to a DNA sequence.
- abecedarius 4y agoIt ought to be enough for the company to make a credible promise to send you the data and delete their copy. Is there really nobody who does that?
- astrange 4y agoYou can never have DNA privacy because you leave it behind wherever you go. It's also probably not worth anything.