Posted on 12/15/2024 8:12:25 AM PST by DoodleBob
“On the 23andMe website, the company’s privacy policy specifies that it “will not share your genetic data with employers, insurance companies, public databases or 3rd party marketers without your explicit consent.””
“U.S. officials have noted that BGI Group, a Chinese company with a U.S. subsidiary, operates the China National GeneBank, a vast government-owned repository that now includes genetic data drawn from millions of people around the world. Intelligence officials say they believe Chinese companies are trying to acquire DNA from Americans.”
They probably maintain an account, and they just plug cold case DNA into it to “research the family tree”.
People that use these services are idiots. They are the meat equivalent of gun registration and the contracts for services are either set to liberally disperse your genetic info, or like 23&Me their whole database gets “stolen/hacked” and after suitable wrist slap (30 mil in their case, class action suit) your genetic and personal info is now in the possession of the Pharma/insurance industrial complex for crafting bespoke pathogens and manipulation coverages/services...
23&Me had their whole database stolen. ~6 million genetic fingerprints and the associated personal information ... POOF.
They paid a 30 million judgement in a class action and then the board resigned. I’m willing to put money on the corporation that “rises from their wreckage” will have a multi hundreds of millions “capital” infusion from biomedical/pharmaceutical sources as the actual consideration for the transfer of that database to inquiring minds...
The slurper tube on the cleanout truck is only 2”-3” ID. That’s why they all have signs in those toilets saying to not put trash into them as it’s “difficult to remove”. The toilet probably gets slurped frequently enough that the deceased isn’t soft and decomposed enough to break up under the vacuum force.
That’s unfortunate.
I have a daughter of a first cousin that is building on a family history started by my mother and one of my mother’s cousins.
That daughter is always working on the family tree and updates us every year at a family reunion.
My mother was adopted and we finally decided to try and find her biological family and when we did they requested we confirm with DNA so we did. She had 2 brothers living in San Diego - their mother had never said one word about having a daughter. What a shock to them but they were very kind and welcoming - to an extent. We discovered that engineers run in the family and also that we are related to a man who has just been appointed to one of Trump’s cabinet positions.
For us the DNA was a great thing.
They submit Barb Garnets dna for familial matches just like any other customer might do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca
Ever see that? Pretty interesting take on the possibilities from 27 years ago.
I knew a guy in high school who applied for a job that required dna and fingerprints and he was arrested, tried and sent to prison for life for a murder almost 20 years earlier.
But I’ll bet that a court could compel them to cooperate.
Pit toilets have to be emptied and the baby was in a platic bag keeping the remains preserved.
We all understand (?) just being on here makes us, at the very least, accessories to something. 🤔😊👍
People volunteer to be profiled. Your in the system and you’ll never get free.
Because all these ‘fun to take’ DNA tests you can buy for one purpose are actually turned over the police......
I will say it seems a bit unreliable. When I first got my results three years ago to now I went from being mostly English with some Norwegian to now being mostly Germanic-whatever with Norway missing.
Wouldn’t a baby in communal toilet waste be exposed to many people’s DNA?
No one in my family is really interested either. A few years ago my brother told me that he did ancestry DNA a couple years prior and then showed me the results, which made me excited to order my own. Then when the results came I posted them to him and was talking about them a little bit and then he says I’m really not that interested anymore :( my mom couldn’t care less and my dad passed away last January. Now he would have been very curious, had he not had dementia. Husband and I did ancestry DNA, our daughter did 23andMe, and she got some Polish results whereas her father got Chekoslavakia/ Romania/ Russia, kind of a broad Eastern Europe, but we know his ancestors were Slovak.
Bingo!
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