We used to learn about our ancestry/heritage by listening to our parents and grandparents telling family stories.
yeah, was bound to happen.
Anyone willing to pay for it.
Great….
The government (Medicare) has it if you’ve used cologuard. Is Blackstone another name for “Starlink”? Time will tell.
Who’s got your DNA now?
A scary question every DNA member with Ancestry.com should be asking themselves and Blackstone?
“Who’s got your DNA now?“
Another step toward the end of days.
Ancestry.com is basically an arm of the LDS Mormon church. In short that means the Mormons are going to get a slice of that $4.7 billion payday.
Ancestry.com is the world’s largest provider of DNA services, allowing customers to trace their genealogy and identify genetic health risks with tests sent to their home.
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who then sends the test to China for your results - the PLA welcomes your DNA into their worldwide DNA data base, in hopes that your DNA will provide the necessary linkage to create their Precision Medicine’s racial genetic weapon - to be used to eliminate all races except Han Chinese.
Thank you, thank you humble sir for your contribution! Many Kowtows!!!
Acquisitions happen and that’s capitalism. But I am struggling to think of something good that came out of an acquisition ... from a end user perspective. Hope they don’t screw up Ancestry.com but I would be shocked if anything good came out of this.
The fact that Blackstone (a major corporate arm of the US deep state) has bought a massive data-base of human DNA should be VERY concerning
Frankly, our folks STILL attach a tremendous stigma to bearing children out of wedlock ... so there is no question where we are from. There is no need to search via an organization that has no business with our personal information. Just my humble opinion...
Thanks to one or more relatives, almost everyone is now in a DNA database. So if you are an axe murderer, they will catch you (not kidding).
Ancestry does not voluntarily provide data of any kind to governmental or judicial bodies or to law enforcement agencies. To provide our Users with the greatest protection under the law, we require all government agencies seeking access to Ancestry customers’ data to follow valid legal process. We do not allow law enforcement to use Ancestry’s services to investigate crimes or to identify human remains.
If we are compelled to disclose your Personal Information to law enforcement, we will do our best to provide you with advance notice, unless we are prohibited under the law from doing so. Ancestry produces a Transparency Report where we list the number of valid law enforcement requests for user data across all our sites.
I am not an attorney and so can't make a substantive statement about how far the new owner of the company is bound by this, or, for that matter, how the new owner of the data is.
Three year old article.
OOOOPS! Shouldn’t have donated your double helix data to science!
SO MANY PEOPLE knew this was going to happen !
No one could have seen that coming.
So the CCP is going to have everyone’s DNA records. Why could possibly go wrong?