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Re:Relative's DNA from genealogy websites cracked East Area ... by txsh on Thursday April 26, 2018 @08:55PM (#16937530)
That's not what I'm talking about. Your DNA can end up under the fingernails of a murder victim with no connection to you. Your name cannot. There was a Wired article about this the other day:

https://www.wired.com/story/dna-transfer-framed-murder/

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Re:Relative's DNA from genealogy websites cracked East Area ... by occamsrazorwit on Thursday April 26, 2018 @10:24PM (#16938007)
That's more of an issue with DNA evidence interpretation than a fundamental difference between different types of identifiable information. Your information can definitely end up in a crime scene that you have nothing to do with. If we use the name example, it's happened before as well [1].

[1] https://www.palmcoastobserver.com/article/man-wrongly-arrest...

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