23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9M users

Re:23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9M users by pfdietz on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @08:19AM (#38530337)

Fair. On the other hand, I'm a bit surprised that anti-immigrant forces in the US haven't made DNA sampling compulsory for new immigrants. The argument would be these would be harder to track down by these techniques, because the ancestry information is not as available, giving them an "unfair" advantage over white Americans.

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Re:23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9M users by kasey_junk on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @09:45AM (#38531442)

The US does do DNA collection for anyone it detains whether they end up being granted legal status or not.

They were processing so much DNA that they had to write a special rule allowing border agents to _not_ collect it if it would cause operational difficulties to do so.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/03/09/2020-04...

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Re:23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9M users by peyton on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @09:09AM (#38530871)

I don’t think that fits with how people on this side of the pond think about immigration.

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Re:23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9M users by dylan604 on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @09:57AM (#38531620)

It fits with how some people think about immigration on either side of the pond. That some is close to 50% on the western side of the pond.

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