Do you have any examples of people being harmed, or are you just spreading FUD?

Try reading some on history from the 1940s, ask yourself if that might happen again, and reevaluate what your parent post says.

You're being paranoid and spreading FUD. Whichever angle you're trying to work, this is not a gay or Jewish problem. Israel itself was supposedly developing an ethnic bioweapon, so if anybody should be afraid it's everyone except Jews.

https://web.archive.org/web/20020428094626/http://www.wired....

Indians are most at risk of genetic exploitation. Hiring managers won't need to ask annoying probing questions about your family to sniff out your lineage if they can just look up your DNA profile to see what caste you belong to.

The caste system was put in place 1900 years ago but after the mixing of populations so caste system identification through dna isn't really possible.

And Jews were self identifying and dna isn't going to tell you if you are gay or not.

Ethnicity can be easier discovered through last name, visual clues rather then stolen hacker data.

The fears are similar to fears around your commodore 64
accidently logging into a war games scenario and destroying the world.

> Ethnicity can be easier discovered through last name

Most people in Russia who identify as Jewish and/or emigrated to Israel have non-Jewish last names. You really would never know if they didn't file the paperwork.

There are political parties in the world today speaking of remigration based on citizenship of family up to 3 or 4 generations. The data from 23andme would fit this purpose perfectly.

23andme data is not ancestry.com data. They lump you into groups from 100ad. Hard to match to country origins when groups are broadly called northwestern european which combines Ireland, UK, Sweden, France, Germany, Sweden, etc into one group.

Wouldn't they use the citizenship data they have from the last 100 years? If they used 23andme data wouldn't they have floods of people from US, Canada, Australia, who could claim a new citizenship?

I worry more about Google, Facebook, mobile apps, cell phones tracking location, interests, activities putting it together for others to buy.

These tests do not do a full detailed analysis if you want that you need to find a clinic and pay thousands of dollars. For what they do tell you I wouldn't be afraid for the entire world to see.

Discovering who you are, where you came from, discovering who your relates are, what your last name is, where people with your genes live now, the backstory on how your wave of immigration came and where they settled and why has been worth it.

The information exposed by 21andme was profile and ethnicity information. I'm okay with any of that becoming public, the public part of a facebook profile shares personal data. Actually I wish more people would ask me about my ethnicity data. I think it would make a great addition as a facebook profile section and if facebook still allowed developers to create profile addons I would create one.

As an aside does anyone remember catbook addon?

> profile and ethnicity information. I'm okay with any of that becoming public

You are probably aware that at least two European countries no longer collect this information, and the reasons for introducing this policy?

Not aware or the reasoning. I looked it up. This article talks about the countries that do and don't.. why black lives matter is protesting in Germany over it.

https://qz.com/2029525/the-20-countries-that-dont-collect-ra...

My guess would be to protect European identity from the reality. Europe has a different level of acceptance of foreigners and a history to protect. I can accept their compromise because of their political situations.

In Canada it's promoted. In the US it gets combined into American identity and promoted in Europe it's hidden.