Posted on 08/08/2020 4:16:13 AM PDT by gattaca
“My great great grandmother was 100% North Carolina Cherokee. My cousin for whom she was her great-grandmother had the DNA test and it said she had zero Cherokee blood.”
There was a thread here a while back that asserted the impossibility of determining American Indian ancestry from DNA.
https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/native-americans-descended-single-ancestral-group-dna-study-confirms
What about having a long lost rich uncle who has a fortune to bequeath to his closest heir? ;)
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Before Ancestry, there was the Mormon Church.....
Who owns Blackstone?
Unless of course you burn all your garbage and never go anywhere in public.
Police lifted DNA from her trash and charged her with a baby's 1981 killing. She says that was illegal.
Theresa Bentaas is fighting a murder charge by saying police should not have taken DNA from her garbage without a warrant.
The DNA in your garbage: up for grabs
Drop a hair? Anyone can legally sequence your genetic material—and privacy experts want to close that gap.
Insurance, credit companies, and the government want to know.
Ask John Roberts @ SCOTUS. I think he knows.
Red
Agreed. If someone wants your biometric data they’ll get it. It’s appropriate to use the technology for crime investigation.
In fact, we soon won’t have a choice about keeping our biometric data private. Facial and retinal scanners will be everywhere with many opportunities to tie the data to your identity. An earlier thread post said that Texas takes fingerprints for driver’s licenses.
But one of the points of my post is that the use of aggregate data is frighteningly powerful.
Google is in the business of collecting and aggregating your data to sell the result to advertisers.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/267606/quarterly-revenue-of-google/
The NSA collects your data and aggregates it to “detect threats.”
There are many problems with an organization having access to this amount of data and the use of AI to turn it into information. For example, the culture at Google is very progressive so the employees’ belief system necessarily shapes the outcome of their products (AI). They slant search results which influences users, perhaps even without realizing they are doing it.
And, of course, the NSA is ultimately directed by people who have political interests. It doesn’t take much imagination to see how it can be abused.
The aggregate data is just data. AI is just pattern recognition. But the use of these tools can be for good or evil, just like any technology.
I’d prefer to make it difficult for any of them to collect data from me. Unfortunately, I think this perspective is rather unusual these days.
How do you remove it?
Call them on the phone … “Hey can you please remove my data”
“Surrrrre……we will”
“Ok thanks, bye”
lol
You may already know this, but that is the most common family myth handed down each generation. (Indian Princess in the family line)
as my father said. Yes there is probably an Indian princess back there. Don’t be impressed. Every two bit tribe had a chief. Every chief had a few wives. Statically half the babies were girls. Every girl a princess. The place was crawling with Indian princesses.
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