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Re:France bans the publication of statistical information ab... by justinclift on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @03:47AM (#20092830)
It can generate privacy issues for all of their relatives, depending on who has access to the data afterwards. :(
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Re:France bans the publication of statistical information ab... by x220 on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @04:10AM (#20092968)
Wouldn't these same privacy issues come up if someone submitted their own DNA for an ancestry test? And yet, these tests are not illegal.
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Re:France bans the publication of statistical information ab... by busymom0 on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @04:16AM (#20092995)
In France, those ancestry tests are illegal too.
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Re:France bans the publication of statistical information ab... by busymom0 on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @03:50AM (#20092848)
I think that's just an excuse they use. It's not hard for government to do the test, get the result about whether someone is the parent or not and then completely delete the data.
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Re:France bans the publication of statistical information ab... by seszett on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @03:54AM (#20092877)
But that's how it happens in France already, and I think people here are arguing for allowing private testing instead?
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