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Re:Relative's DNA from genealogy websites cracked East Area ... by prawn on Friday April 27, 2018 @12:16AM (#16938418)
A nefarious genetic catalogue company could offer a bounty for people submitting DNA samples and identities.
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Re:Relative's DNA from genealogy websites cracked East Area ... by fixermark on Friday April 27, 2018 @09:51AM (#16940749)
To be useful, they'd of course need a solution for verifying authenticity of the input data. Otherwise, it's just noise and we already have historical examples of that design failing (such as "informants" handing over people to the US as terror suspects).
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Re:Relative's DNA from genealogy websites cracked East Area ... by reaperducer on Friday April 27, 2018 @01:18PM (#16942473)
>A nefarious genetic catalogue company

Or simply Facebook. Imagine the improvement in advertising accuracy if it could use your DNA as a unique key in its database. Match

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Re:Relative's DNA from genealogy websites cracked East Area ... by astura on Friday April 27, 2018 @08:29AM (#16940279)
Interesting idea, it could even be opt in and explicitly for crime investigation purposes.
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