[rktman]

Uh, just curious, does ancestry.com or 23&me commonly/routinely share ‘DNA’ submissions with LEO? Not that I have anything to hide.

[one guy in new jersey]

“Not that I have anything to hide.”

Hmmm...🧐🤨...perhaps you have been overenthusiastic in sharing? Lol

[Go_Raiders]

They share DNA data with other subscribers and genealogy websites. Usually the subscriber is a person looking to discover blood relatives and fill in missing pieces on their family tree. But many Law Enforcement agencies also subscribe, to help solve cold cases.

Sometimes it helps ID a victim and bring peace to families who have had a loved one disappear. Sometimes it solves a crime.

[Telepathic Intruder]

"Not that I have anything to hide".

It doesn't matter. The cops will try to frame you if they can using any evidence they obtain. We need them, but we also don't need a police state.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

—> Uh, just curious, does ancestry.com or 23&me commonly/routinely share ‘DNA’ submissions with LEO? Not that I have anything to hide.

Sure.

And if not already, China will get it to create bioweapons - if our CIA hasn’t already

[Rdct29]

The police do comb through the family tree DNA databases for evidence. I’ve seen this before where a relative sent a sample to the company and got a close relative arrested for an unsolved murder.

[VTenigma]

Maybe “ancestry and 23 and me” are just “agency” cutouts. Just sayin’.

[Axenolith]

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...

[SunkenCiv]

I know what you mean, if I’d known about this DNA bs, I’d never have gone on that killing spree.

[Political Junkie Too]

Sometimes the police will submit the DNA under a fake account just to see if it matches anyone.

-PJ

[pepsi_junkie]

Uh, just curious, does ancestry.com or 23&me commonly/routinely share ‘DNA’ submissions with LEO? Not that I have anything to hide.

I have nothing to hide criminally but I feel it's only a matter of time before it gets used to make decisions on, for example, health insurance ('you have this gene, so you are not insurable and neither is anyone on your family', for example).

I don't want the world pawing through my DNA so I will never take one of those tests, just in principle.

[RebelTXRose]

I think it was early to mid 90’s when my attorney dad told all of us kids to not volunteer dna for anything.

[sport]

The prisons are full of those who, “had nothing to hide”, or “I haven’t done anything , so, go ahead and search my...... car or house”.