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Given the number of people who voluntarily submit DNA to ancestry and other analysis sites, it really doesn't have much practical impact if governments collect

Given the number of people who voluntarily submit DNA to ancestry and other analysis sites, it really doesn't have much practical impact if governments collect it. Even without yours, they have enough of your relatives' to identify you. I have the same knee-jerk reaction as everyone else to government encroaching on privacy, but in the end we've all long since voluntarily given up any semblance of privacy. We're all carrying tracking devices and filling our homes with microphones and our families have given away our DNA for us. Privacy doesn't exist.

temp0826 3y ago
I expect someday that the entire population's full genomes will be recorded (by some government entity or otherwise) and public. It's sadly only a matter of time.
teeray 3y ago
> Even without yours, they have enough of your relatives' to identify you This is what makes me mildly irritated about “consent to collect DNA samples.” DNA is not just you, unlike other biometrics, like fingerprints—it’s your relatives too. This makes it hypothetically possible, for example, for some insurer to genetically determine you have a preexisting condition without ever consenting to give your DNA. Of course this will never get unwound because of the enormous boon to law enforcement these mega gene databases have been.
01HNNWZ0MV43FF 3y ago
"I also care, but actually I don't" wow
hervem 3y ago
Except that Viet. gov. isn't really good at putting directive.. During Covid, Vietnam had ~20 official applications to track vaccination and half of them could give travel/move certificate. And to not stop, every city & district did manage differently "inventory" from application, google form, excel over Dropbox to hand managed paper. To finish, I don't even imaging how it could end; IT security speaking.

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Given the number of people who voluntarily submit DNA to ancestry and other analysis sites, it really doesn't have much practical impact if governments collect

by caymanjim 3y ago

temp0826 3y ago
I expect someday that the entire population's full genomes will be recorded (by some government entity or otherwise) and public. It's sadly only a matter of time.
teeray 3y ago
> Even without yours, they have enough of your relatives' to identify you This is what makes me mildly irritated about “consent to collect DNA samples.” DNA is not just you, unlike other biometrics, like fingerprints—it’s your relatives too. This makes it hypothetically possible, for example, for some insurer to genetically determine you have a preexisting condition without ever consenting to give your DNA. Of course this will never get unwound because of the enormous boon to law enforcement these mega gene databases have been.
01HNNWZ0MV43FF 3y ago
"I also care, but actually I don't" wow
hervem 3y ago
Except that Viet. gov. isn't really good at putting directive.. During Covid, Vietnam had ~20 official applications to track vaccination and half of them could give travel/move certificate. And to not stop, every city & district did manage differently "inventory" from application, google form, excel over Dropbox to hand managed paper. To finish, I don't even imaging how it could end; IT security speaking.