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A comment on Blackstone to Acquire Ancestry.com for $4.7B. Parent comment

Re:Blackstone to Acquire Ancestry.com for $4.7B by xadhominemx on Thursday August 06, 2020 @04:22PM (#24075046)
> DNA acquisition is rife with privacy concerns

Such as?

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Re:Blackstone to Acquire Ancestry.com for $4.7B by saagarjha on Thursday August 06, 2020 @08:24PM (#24076785)
You know, collecting the DNA of everyone and being able to use it to trace them.
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Re:Blackstone to Acquire Ancestry.com for $4.7B by xadhominemx on Thursday August 06, 2020 @08:52PM (#24076917)
Trace them how?
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Re:Blackstone to Acquire Ancestry.com for $4.7B by erulabs on Thursday August 06, 2020 @10:04PM (#24077303)
Supposed you lived in Nazi germany during Kristallnacht and someone could just say "Hallo Siri, wo sind die Nicht-Arier?"
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