Posted on 05/18/2018 1:25:02 PM PDT by Red Badger
Glad the killer was caught but this is getting creepy.
Now that this method is nationally known, there will probably be a lot of unsolved cold cases brought back to the fore front...........
I knew it. I have always said those Genealogy Websites are just a way to gather a massive DNA database. They couldn’t get it from the masses by volunteers so they use those sites.
Soon, DNA samples will be mandatorily taken at birth and from schools and universities, so everyone will be in the database................
You can follow your family tree all the way back in time. As long as the paperwork exists for your 10xxxx removed great-great-great-great grandfather or grandmother.
Fascinating stuff, really. Explored on Who Do You Know Who You Are.
“Now that this method is nationally known, there will probably be a lot of unsolved cold cases brought back to the fore front...”
Exciting development, but a whole lot less people will be contributing a vial of spit to Ancestry, com, etc. There have been warnings up before about not handing over your DNA willy nilly as down the road it could be a “gotcha”.
It can solve crimes as long as we have a DNA match.
That’s not true for all cold cases that have no leads.
You’re exactly right - and you can’t keep the government from getting your genome by not providing it - if any of your relatives provide it, they can figure yours out.
Next - life insurance companies and health insurance companies will start figuring out how to get the data.
And the Democrats will try to see if there are genetic traits that conservatives and Republicans have - and then it will be “Precrime” all over again.
It is a Brave New World.
How soon before smart criminals start planting DNA evidence at crime scenes?
Not hard to pick up discarded cigarette butts or utensils from McDonalds garbage.
Maybe prostitutes paid for samples from johns?
“I knew it. I have always said those Genealogy Websites are just a way to gather a massive DNA database. They couldn’t get it from the masses by volunteers so they use those sites.”
I said this in the other thread about the Golden State Killer.
If a person decides to upload their DNA profile to a public database to “look for relatives”, they have essentially uploaded their whole family’s DNA profiles, because it doesn’t take long to work through the tree once you have a confirmed starting point.
If your brother or cousin decides to do it, then your DNA is essentially in the database as well.
Soon, DNA samples will be mandatorily taken at birth and from schools and universities, so everyone will be in the database................
Doesn’t the military already do this?
With the number of kids that are adopted, living with step parents or fostered this could get very unpleasant.
The good news is we found your biological father. And his brother is a serial killer.
I think they already take blood samples from newborns in some states. Read about that sometime this week. Yes they will at some point have everyone in that database.
Yep. Another reason 23 and Me was a Google investment.
Not that I wear a tinfoil hat, mind you.
Nevertheless, glad this guy was caught.
But a massive public DNA database? Eeeeek.
Exciting development, but a whole lot less people will be contributing a vial of spit to Ancestry, com, etc. There have been warnings up before about not handing over your DNA willy nilly as down the road it could be a “gotcha”.
Except it is not the “suspect” that submitted the DNA but a distant cousin.
Creepy? I’d say its wonderful. If you don’t like it.....don’t leave your DNA at a crime scene.
[Soon, DNA samples will be mandatorily taken at birth and from schools and universities, so everyone will be in the database................]
Correct. Don’t worry, it’s just a ‘999’.
All leading to that moment. We’re not there just yet....
Really 23 and Me Google investment? I shouldn’t be surprised.
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