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Re:23andMe Informed Me My Husband and I Are Related by Uberphallus on Friday December 14, 2018 @04:54AM (#18679692)
What a group of friends has been doing is, they ordered +10 kits over a year shipped to the very same person, then they each of them spit and register the kit with a disposable email address. The info about the receiver is watered down (if he did one himself, which he didn't) and the rest remain reasonably anonymous as long as they keep using Tor/VPNs.

Moreover, these tests are forbidden in France, so these shipments are being sent to Monaco/Italy (1 hour drive from here), adding extra levels of law/tracking indirection.

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Re:23andMe Informed Me My Husband and I Are Related by Casseres on Friday December 14, 2018 @06:26AM (#18680081)
Keeping your name and location anonymous doesn't matter. Once a company obtains a family member's DNA information through any other source, they will see a familial correlation, use other records to realize that family member has a brother/sister/etc and might now attribute that once-anonymous DNA record to you.

That's the scary thing about these companies: you might never even use the service, but once a relative does, the company now has information about you.

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