Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their customers’ DNA

Re:Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their custom... by maresca on Friday October 16, 2015 @04:33PM (#10401835)

This is exactly the type of bullshit I'm talking about when I try to stress privacy to people I know and they think I'm a lunatic. Most people don't want to hear what "could" happen, only what has happened in the past.

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Re:Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their custom... by SixSigma on Friday October 16, 2015 @05:02PM (#10401988)

And they get all Godwin on you when you tell them that IBM hoarded and then processed census data for the Third Reich in exactly the scenario of:

Hand over information to someone you trust (in that case the Govt. of your country who proclaim that they welcome Jews); someone who wants to use it against not you gains control of it via takeover (in that case a bunch of psychotics who will murder you because in 1933 your grandma ticked "Jewish" on the census form).

It isn't far fetched nonsense, it is tried and tested.

Http://ibmandtheholocaust.com/

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Re:Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their custom... by rch on Friday October 16, 2015 @04:40PM (#10401872)

What will be really interesting is when they acquire a sample from someone based on a partial match by a family member to one case, then proceed with an unrelated case based on a partial match to that sample!

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