> I don't even know why the state would need to go through 23andme. Need, maybe not - but it's infinitely easier to send a single letter to a single company th

> I don't even know why the state would need to go through 23andme. Need, maybe not - but it's infinitely easier to send a single letter to a single company than to follow 100,000 individuals around, establish their identity and then pick up their cigarette butts. Same deal with the phone metadata collection. You want to know if Joe Badguy is up to something, keeping poor company or hanging around the bad part of town? Much easier to pull up his cell phone and credit card data than to put a watch on him.