I don't know man, I'm kind of think the paranoid nutball might not be far off. Just like Facegores is NSA backed, I'm thinking those DNA nonsense companies might be a front. Got to wonder if Warren actually thought releasing the results was good idea? Yeah, the nightly news is not reporting the percentage but damn near every moderate and right of central news outlet is. Seems the Indians are more pissed about this than that stupid Washington DC football team.
At the very least all it would take is a court order. with the way sh*t gets hacked do you really trust the government to not have a confidential list of all the ancestry data? They could quickly focus their attention that way and then dream up a reason for a court order. The FISA warrants show it's not all that hard to do.
Nope. They matched relatives on a site where people choose to upload their own DNA profiles and went from there. The private companies don't post data to the public and would be subject to the same search warrants as any other personal info.
That's not my point. Say they have some random DNA from a crime scene. All they would have to do is check the 13 points against the massive DNA file and lo and behold your name pops up. All of the sudden you are the number one suspect. It's now up to you to prove them wrong. We all know "innocent until PROVEN guilty" but that's not really the way the cops work.
And yet again - so what? As with the one people are using as a bad example all it takes is some remote relative and they'll track you down. Worrying about shit they can already get if necessary is just silly.
Hey man, I'm not planning on murdering anyone but someday I might want to. I at least want the option and a chance to get away with it. I don't want them pulling up to my house 15 minutes later and arresting me and shit. "We matched your DNA to that ACME am I an Injun DNA test you bought. You might notta wanted to pee on your victim."
I think that as with all information there is public and there is private. You guys started off arguing about how the man can get you through the private and since that failed miserably you want to go off into tinfoil land about how the man will one day maybe have everyone. You were wrong. Move on.