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Re:One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Worki... by mikeash on Friday February 01, 2019 @05:34PM (#19059434)
Maybe. The more relevant question here would be: would you pay some company to get yourself fingerprinted and have them put your prints in a big database for police to use when solving crimes?
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Re:One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Worki... by pfdietz on Sunday February 03, 2019 @09:46PM (#19073592)
The difference is, fingerprints would only finger you. Your DNA can finger thousands of distantly related people who are not you.
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