I said on day one this would be done and it was decidedly Big Brotherish. I would never submit a test.
In before the “but I did it and it’s GREAT!” posts.
One of the goals of totalitarian government is to capture everyone’s DNA. They may tell you that they won’t do it, but they will.
The social security number was a retirement account number. On my card, the original, it clearly says “not for identification.” Now it’s the universal citizen ID number, necessary for financial transactions. It’s the index to our records on the files of the “credit bureaus” which took our SSN without our consent and created a file on us.
Without our consent, those files became a database that is used to “determine” if we are good persons (”credit worthy”). The government uses those databases on us. Employers use them. Woe unto you if there’s a mistake in your files! Once something is on the computer, it acquires God-like status, and cannot be questioned.
Linking your DNA capture to your SSN is the holy grail of the totalitarians.
DNA is a powerful tool that has revolutionized geneology. I added 200 years to my family tree.
Now it’s being used to track down criminals. I’m good with that.
Suckers born everyday.
The LA Times doesn’t give a rat’s ass about your privacy, they care that it will be easier to catch criminals; murders, rapists, etc.
Putting my DNA profile into the public domain is my business, it is my DNA. Don’t put yours out there? That’s your business.
Worried about big brother? Get out there and actively fight them at every turn.
The same arguments were made years ago about keeping public registries of finger prints, along with photos for ID purposes.
Why shouldn’t murderers, rapists, and all other felons be identified? Seems to me that only those who have a reason to remain in the shadows don’t like it.
Ruth Dickover?
Anyway, many of these services take an educated guess at filling in some of the information they provide making the results rather suspect.
https://gizmodo.com/how-dna-testing-botched-my-familys-heritage-and-probab-1820932637
Also, the info has been used to put criminals away before:
https://www.ajc.com/news/national/can-police-legally-obtain-your-dna-from-23andme-ancestry/8eZ24WN7VisoQiHAFbcmjP/
This particular Ginii is out of the bottle.
Technological advancement and growing databases will make this easier and cheaper.
In ten years, a DNA sample, like a hair or a few skin cells, will be enough to determine everything there is to know about a person. Name, finances, relationships, medical history and vulnerabilities, politics, pets, driving habits, browser search history, what kind of car they drive, and what brand of beer they drink.
In twenty-five years you will be able to do this instantaneously with your phone.
I’ve read elsewhere that most of the DNA tests only give results on some parts of DNA and that being, I wonder how truly completly accurate is this stuff? when they say 90 (or whatever) % match, if it’s not testing all parts of DNA then what if all those other portions don’t match at all but that is not known because the DNA is not fully tested?
kinda like a puzzle where the one side of a piece fits and you work much of the puzzle believing that piece is correct but hours or days later you realize that piece doesn’t fit on other sides and you have to remove it to make the actual whole puzzle come together properly.
While doing some good, there is also likely some bad happening due to DNA testing and usages and claims. I think there is some deception/in accuracy in the testing and in the results given to people.
Sorry. I can’t see where a DNA database is any more threatening than the advent of photography.
I have a clueless brother and sisterin-law that did this.
How am I going to commit the perfect murder?
Anybody still concerned about privacy does not know what year it is. Privacy ceased to exists 20+ years ago, stuff like this is just the dying embers. It’s a big data world, you’re just an entry.
I think they’re bogus, at least the ones they have that you can buy by mail. My cousin had hers and her immediate family done to determine ancestry, and she, her husband and their 3 daughters all had completely different countries of heritage. Now I can understand her and her husband not having the same types, but why would one kid from the same parents show Jewish, Italian, Irish, roots, for example, and the sisters have completely different countries for roots? I heard on the radio a while back, that they’ve tested these over the counter tests on identical triplets, whose information should match, and it doesn’t match. Perhaps the tests that are done for criminal forensics are accurate, but I don’t understand how siblings from the same parents can show different countries of origin.
Also, do those of you who are sent the new colon screening tool by their doctors, realize the test not only examines your stool specimen for cancer, the kit also collects and analyzes your DNA?
I certainly wouldn’t publish my DNA. It would show my genetic weaknesses for all to see.
“TSR’s DNA: An American Horror Story”
Someone’s looking for Nephilim DNA.
*ping*
I had my DNA done at Ancestry and now I am wondering if my Father was really my Father. My Mother’s side of the DNA was pretty much what I expected 42% Eastern European and the rest split between Eastern European Jew and Russian. My Father’s side which should have been English was 42% German and only 8% England/ Wales. My Grandmother was born in England. My Father’s paternal ancestry emigrated to America in the 1600’s and I can trace their line back to the 1500’s in England. Things that make you go hmmm.