Re:Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a ma...
by JangoSteve on Thursday July 23, 2020 @12:02PM
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I'm not sure it's just feelings to be resolved. The problem is that even DNA matching, especially the SNP genotyping which tends to be used by consumer ancestry and heritage services, is not perfect. So your daughter can end up false-positively matching to a crime 20 years from now due to your uncle submitting his own DNA last year without you ever knowing. I'm not sure how anyone sufficiently familiar with the implications can just get over it and accept the reality of the situation. It is by no means an easy problem to solve.
Re:Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a ma...
by kube-system on Thursday July 23, 2020 @12:13PM
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That’s very true but it’s more of a criminal justice problem than a privacy problem. The same issue could happen (and has) with fingerprints or other biometric data.
You don't get a choice if your uncle, grandmother, aunt, niece or son share their DNA with law enforcement.