[MV=PY]

A few considerations:

If you set up an account with a company and give them your email address, you can get out by changing your email.

But you can’t change your biometrics. Biometric data is a permanent connection to you.

Think twice before you use a fingerprint or facial scan to access your PC.

Think twice before you send your DNA to anyone.

Think twice about offering retinal scans.

If any company offers free apps, free reports, free functionality etc, YOU are actually the company’s product (sell your data to others, if only in aggregate).

Google will be happy to give you instructions to navigate from one address to another. In exchange, you’re telling Google two of your locations and the time you’re there. And they know what is at those locations. They can learn a lot about you by combining these data. Then add a “smart thermostat” so they know when you’re home. Etc.

Be careful out there. Think. Protect your data.

[freepertoo]

My family is Greek..really Greek. Really. I did the DNA thing.not one hint if Greek ancestry.

[a fool in paradise]

Texas driver’s licenses have required you to submit fingerprints since the 1990s but you cannot get a replacement ID by using your fingerprints (must show other paperwork) so what are they REALLY collecting it for and why must you submit prints from BOTH hands?

[rxsid]

Now, this obviously isn't the same as taking affirmative steps to turn in your DNA for a geneaology test....but if someone/some agency wants your DNA, they will get it and it truly wouldn't be that difficult to find a sample.

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.