I’m glad he was caught but am I the only one creeped out by how these geneology sites seem to be front operations for Big Brother?
[ I’m glad he was caught but am I the only one creeped out by how these geneology sites seem to be front operations for Big Brother? ]
Nope, I am too, and with the upcoming inevitable CW-II....
It is something to be very paranoid about.
Well... thanks for letting the cat out of the bag. : )
If you look into how they are setup it makes more sense. Imagine if fingerprint database was publicly searcheable online. So you’re a detective, and it’s a slow day. Start comparing fingerprints lifted from a crime scene at one of the sites. If you find a match, bully for you. What’s cool is police departments that save evidence carefully over the years can solve all kinds of crimes now. So stuff they didn’t necessarily realize would be useful, it was a good thing they saved it anyway. There’s probably quite a few bad guys out there sweating these days.
Agreed, you could eventually be tracked and your DNA analyzed opening you up for precrimes just because some relative saw that 23andme commercial.
Not at all.
If you create an account anywhere and supply some information, you can change the password, or dump the email address. In short, you can pretty much undo it.
As soon as you release biometric information, it's in the wild and you can't "undo it," no matter the risk or downside.
You can't change your DNA, eye scans, or fingerprints (or whatever biometrics they're developing now).
Too late for that. BB I’m sure has your dental and medical records on access. Remember the first years of obamacare..
“... but am I the only one creeped out by how these geneology sites seem to be front operations for Big Brother?”
Seems to be?
Not at all.
It has become obvious that DNA records are readily available to Government agencies and large corporations engaged in mass surveillance of the general population. If there are any adverse circumstances or conditions that can be correlated with your DNA, that information can and will be used against you to the benefit of those organizations.
They do ask you if it’s ok to use your DNA in criminal investigations.
No, you’re not.
I have some personal reasons I’d like to try the genealogy sites, but the whole Big Brother thing weirds me out.
Dna testing samlling is far from perfect, due to the few locii chosen there are false positives.
Which is why i will never use these services because they do sell and turn over genetic info to “the powers that be”.
No. Way.
I’m glad he was caught but am I the only one creeped out by how these geneology sites seem to be front operations for Big Brother?
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I don’t consider it “Big Brother”. I consider it JUSTICE. Modern technology has simply extended the “long arm of the law”. This is a good thing.
Whether “Geneology sites seem to be front operations for Big Brother?”
I accept the question. My answer is, no. The Human Genome Project was completed in 2005 and now every person, all 7 billion of us, have the opportunity to learn our personal diseases, personal nutrition needs, personal exercise needs and personal insurance needs. Plus, I joined 23andMe ten years ago and get excellent advice about my diseases from the chat rooms. People really suffer and understanding personal genes really give hope.
Gattaca was a good movie back in 1997 about Big Brother and conspiracy. Fiction.
Actually, my grandma and other relatives have been known to, well
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Google, one of the biggest suppliers of data to the NSA and a PRISM company, is a lead investor in 23andMe. Ancestry.com has applied to the FDA to create a national genetic database.
Not the only one. I now assume that any of these social-oriented wbesite businesses are fronts in some way.
Yes, it’s creepout to the max.
I’m glad he was caught but am I the only one creeped out by how these geneology sites seem to be front operations for Big Brother?
Nope, I’m creeped out too. Makes me think of Gattaca, a bit.
Of course, as a military veteran (USN 1988-1992), the government has my DNA on file already, but even I’m leery of submitting to ancestry.com/23-and-me/whatever.