I considered doing the DNA through ancestry because of looking for my mom, brother and maybe other relatives. Asked a lot of questions and did a lot of reading. Decided against it because the government is building a massive DNA database which Ancestry is contributing to. I would think that Amazon might as well.
Your suggestion is a great one but any medical information about someone is ending up in D.C. Whenever our family needs any lab work done, there is a local free standing lab available in our city where you can pay cash, don’t need anything from a doctor, don’t even need to use your real name and the results only go to the person requesting the tests.
“but any medical information about someone is ending up in D.C.”
There’s no doubt that 23andMe intends totally nefarious usage of the dna information it collects, but that is not the case with ancestry.com, which will hand over specific data only when served with a legal search warrant.
On the other hand, I think that we can all assume that all data on the Internet has been (or could be whenever desired) stolen by the U.S. government.
Nonetheless, whether my DNA information gets stolen by the U.S government or not, I find the benefits to my own personal health to FAR outweigh any paranoia regarding clandestine government activity.
I’ve been on the internet since it existed and have a very large amount of information about my purchases and usage online at various websites and a large amount of medical information contained in various hospital and doctor databases, so I figure a little bit more won’t make any difference.