Any time you get routine blood work done, they’ve obtained a sample from you.... not sure how avoiding Ancestry or 23&Me is going to protect you....
I’m pretty sure I’m on file as a Veteran that had a TS/SCI.
That is absolutely true, however, working in healthcare as I do, my first inclination is that a healthcare facility, functioning in a Constitutional Republic under the rule of law and penalty, must abide by patient confidentiality as outlined in HIPAA regulations.
So, even if you sign that Treatment Consent form that all patients must by law sign before getting healthcare, and there is microscopic text (which many never read) that announces the medical team can do anything with your tissue or blood that they wish, they are still bound by HIPAA law not to reveal your personal data.
So, even if they did want to develop a DNA kind of thing, sell your DNA to some researcher or drug company, or use your blood as a control in some large scale study or...whatever, they still could not reveal who you are.
That is according to laws passed by a legal government, conforming to the guidelines of the Constitutional Republic.
When The Constitution is being ignored-there is no penalty (except focused for political prosecutions or gross negligence that cannot be ignored) for dissemination of patient data, including name and DNA information.
And it is my contention we no longer live in a Constitutional Republic bounded by the rule of law.
We live in an oligarchy in which anything is possible if it benefits someone politically or financially.
So in that sense, that there may be healthcare institutions, enforcement agencies, or individual politicians that are enticed in some fashion (money, blackmail, who knows) into giving information by channels both public and non-public, legal or illegal, you could be absolutely correct, 4Liberty.
Hell, for all any of us knows, it could be right there in the open, printed for all to see somewhere in that 70,000 pages of the Federal Registry. It could even be part of that 1.7 Trillion Dollar omnibus bill that was just passed.
How would we know? Who has read the whole thing? Who even cared to?