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My dad didn't even talk about doing it before hand. You're lucky to have got the warning.

Feels gross knowing that my DNA is largely known by so many organisations.

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One wonders how hard it would be to create a plausible but fake sample for them to run.

Easy (but very unethical).

Just send them a sample from someone else.

Your DNA is 99.9% known anyway, because you’re a human. Only the remaining 0.1% varies between individuals.

Yeah and its that 0.1% that can be used to identify me, so that's what I care about being in a database.

I don't care if they run a DNA search on a database that has such broad results that it includes bananas...

Under what circumstances, apart from where you or a close relative has committed a crime, are you concerned that someone might identify you from your DNA?

Or would be physically present sometime around the time of a crime... or if the FBI wanted to frame someone they thought of as a subversive....

"Why would you want that? Apart from the very clear and obvious reasons that is."

Why do I always see this sort of question phrasing on this site in particular?

The very clear and obvious reason being to protect yourself from criminal punishment? Yikes.

Do you derive your sense of morality from what's legal/illegal or something? Of course one should want to protect themselves from criminal punishment.

I can easily imagine health insurance companies refusing coverage or charging exorbitant rates to people because they know about your DNA and what diseases you might be susceptible to...

That's illegal...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_Information_Nondiscrim...

And if it wasn't illegal then insurance companies would simply just demand DNA before underwriting your policy.

If you are a millenial you've probably been genotyped at birth already. This data has some pretty good legal protections around it, there's really no reason to worry.

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