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Re:All Those 23andMe Spit Tests Were Part of a Bigger Plan by ttymck on Monday November 08, 2021 @11:25AM (#29150928)
If we call that doxxing, isn't that the same as an identical twin who commits a crime being held liable for defamation of the twin who shares their face?

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Or, by the same token: a parent is liable for diluting the value of their siblings DNA because they passed that DNA on to children. I don't see this going anywhere.

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Re:All Those 23andMe Spit Tests Were Part of a Bigger Plan by totalZero on Monday November 08, 2021 @10:12PM (#29157287)
Not exactly, no. These are weak analogies. The second one doesn't make any sense to me at all. Maybe I'm missing something.

It's like sharing your private key, knowing that others also use that private key.

You immediately make a large portion of your family tree discoverable.

It's the same underlying reason that we (most of us lol) treat revenge porn as a bad thing. You take someone else's blanket of privacy away without their consent.

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