Posted on 02/13/2024 7:50:33 AM PST by BenLurkin
I hope there are no Democrats in my ancestry.
I know there were two horse thieves: both were hanged. But please, no Democrats!
A True Crime fan, I once saw a case where a woman, disenchanted with her marriage, set up her husband for murder.
She was in law enforcement, handling fingerprinting. Using some kind of tape, she transferred her husband’s fingerprints to the door handle of a murdered person’s car. It worked. For a while. But she eventually was found out.
It would be SO much easier for someone at 23 And Me to grab some DNA on file and do nefarious things with it. Imagine voluntarily handing over basically who you are to random unknown people. Shudder.
Maybe good gosh.
I’m not sure what people think might happen.
Well, they’re not hacking the data for no reason thsts for sure
Yup—the writer is obviously unfamiliar with antisemitic conspiracy theories.
I have yet to see one that claimed that Jews “passed as white”.
Lol.
What reason or reasons are posited?
From the article:
“Regardless of the motivation, any breach involving genetic data has potentially wide-ranging consequences. “There is no way of knowing who has access to it now, how many people have access to it, or what they may choose to do with it in the future,” Callow says. “Genetic data does imply health outcomes in a lot of cases, and that is something that may affect a person’s long-term employability or perhaps the likelihood of dying early or suffering a debilitating illness. Potentially, this data could be of interest to employers or insurers.”
“In an age where an increasing number of financial decisions are made by algorithms that scrape all possible sources of information about an individual, there is a serious possibility of financial loss and discrimination arising from a leak of genetic data. Health insurance companies in the US are barred from using genetic information to calculate risk, but there is no federal law to prohibit its use by life insurance companies. It’s easy to imagine a scenario where leaked genetic data might lead to higher premiums or customers being denied cover entirely because of their genes, or being rejected for a long-term bank loan or mortgage because leaked data suggests a higher likelihood of the lender developing Alzheimer’s and passing away before it could be was repaid in full.”
Thanks
“ There is no way of knowing …what they may choose to do with it in the future,”
Yes. That’s exactly my point or question.
The one thing I can think of is identification.
But the article doesn’t say if the person’s name was associated with the DNA data.
But if so, a person could be identified. Relatives could be too.
No incognito traveling or aliases.
I can see how a totalitarian state would want this ability. Probably why Chicoms or Russia stole it.
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Also there’s this:
“Even if you haven’t taken one of these tests, it’s likely that you have a close relative who has, and a very close version of your genetic code may exist in a corporate database.”
So I guess your genetic data can be compromised even if you don’t even take one of these tests.
I do know that law enforcement can use a relatives DNA to assist in tracking down criminals.
IIRC that process was used to find Bryan Kohberger, the suspect that is accused of murdering the four college students in Idaho.
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In one of Scott Turow’s 90’s novels-and the movie made from it-”Presumed Innocent”-the jealous wife of an assistant DA murdered her husband’s mistress-went to the woman’s home, cleverly staged the scene as a rape-and-murder, left hubby’s DNA on a glass on the kitchen counter-wine, I think-and on/in the private parts of the mistress, then sat back, played the wronged-but loving wife-hoping hubby would go to prison for life. It almost worked, too-the movie kept me on the edge right until the end.
You are right-someone with a criminal mind at 23 And Me could provide that to someone’s enemy-for a price, of course-and the consequences could be catastrophic for the targeted victim. I’ll pass on the 23 And Me and those other testing services, thanks...
“Hey, who is that person who looks just like me?”
Spare parts.
Oh, yeah. I loved the movie. Talk about surprise endings! The casting was excellent.
Definitely-Harrison Ford did different roles then and was believable in all of them, I think-he was the villain in a thriller, too-hid it so well that you believed someone else was the murderer until almost the end.
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