[CobaltBlue]

The consent form doesn't even allow your signature, you just black in a dot. It really is anonymous.

[xenophiles]

The consent form doesn't even allow your signature, you just black in a dot. It really is anonymous.

Except that they can, if they wish, identify a DNA sample with an address to which they sent that kit.

Whether or not you consider your genome private, the point is that these people have set up a privacy-protection mechanism that is flawed, which suggests to me that they are simply paying lip service to privacy.

As for how this information could be used to hurt people, suppose your genome revealed a predisposition to, say, alcoholism. Do you think that nobody would want to restrict your rights to drive a car, own a gun, have custody of a child? Have you never seen a law so oppressive?