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How to Delete Your Data From 23andMe, Ancestry, and Other Sites
Consumer Reports ^ | 1/29/2019 | Kevin Loria

Posted on 02/04/2019 12:47:13 PM PST by RightGeek

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To: Maskot

Yup.


21 posted on 02/04/2019 1:39:27 PM PST by Kalamata (NEW! Pt 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXF4ySJ7Xyc&list=PLrCQerz2L0If_VT4tw73RjhG5tBjdZfZy&index)
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To: RightGeek

Easiest is not to send your spit to them in the first place. That’s asking for trouble.


22 posted on 02/04/2019 1:41:49 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.S)
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To: Kalamata

Yep - funny how Hillary’s emails never popped out of that NSA facility either.......hmmmmmm.......

Almost like the Clintons are protected.....


23 posted on 02/04/2019 1:48:51 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: RightGeek

Considering how UTTERLY INACCURATE these things are, and the FACT they refer to themselves as “entertainment”,

All I have to say is:

Good onya, ya PUTZ!


24 posted on 02/04/2019 1:57:50 PM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: RightGeek

Bookmark.


25 posted on 02/04/2019 2:14:03 PM PST by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
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To: Delta 21

The NSA hasn’t published it yet.


26 posted on 02/04/2019 2:40:33 PM PST by TADSLOS (The trouble wth political jokes is that they get elected.)
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To: RightGeek

They won’t EVER delete your actual DNA.


27 posted on 02/04/2019 3:24:59 PM PST by montag813
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To: RightGeek

they report they removed it, meanwhile the copies that were split off to other parties still exist


28 posted on 02/04/2019 3:47:23 PM PST by BereanBrain
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To: RainMan
I'm 27 % Labrador (not Canadian, retriever).
I sent in my dog's slobber. /JK
29 posted on 02/04/2019 3:49:20 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: RainMan

I don’t know which company your daughter used to test her DNA, but some are more accurate than others. That said, DNA isn’t measured in political/countries. They use a reference population who’s ancestors have dwelt in an area for centuries. These populations are going to overlap countries. If you are German, you will likely get some Scandinavian results. The same with England, Ireland, Scotland, France. The Vikings sacked Rome and controlled areas in Italy. They were everywhere in Europe. 25% would be a maybe a grandparent or a couple of great-grandparents who have DNA consistent with someone in Scandinavia. It doesn’t mean they were born or lived there.

A 1% result of African heritage would most likely be ignored. It’s considered “noise”.


30 posted on 02/04/2019 4:14:16 PM PST by Andy'smom (Proud member of the basket of deplorables)
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To: RightGeek

No one will ever successfully remove their information from those sites. Anyone who understands the technical implementations of databases knows that ain’t gunna happen.


31 posted on 02/04/2019 4:17:18 PM PST by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and America!.)
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To: RightGeek

Why can’t you provide an “anonymous” sample and payment?

No names would be tied to the sample or recipient. Just an email address and pay stub.

Since you wouldn’t know anyone with a matching/similar genetic history, it wouldn’t compromise privacy.

Wanting to know genetic “markers” (traits) and ancient regions shouldn’t have to open the door.


32 posted on 02/04/2019 4:20:23 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Blogger

The police used GedMatch to catch that serial killer in CA. They got a hit on a relative, and then employed the services of a “Forensic Genealogist” to narrow it down to him. I read that GedMatch currently has enough DNA samples to identify about half the people in the country. This gives the police a suspect. All they have to do then is wait for him to discard something with his DNA on it.

So, it’s good to catch serial killers. But it’s the other uses that I worry about. Sperm donation and adoptions are areas that are already experiencing ramifications. Time will tell how this works out. I don’t think it’s going to be good.


33 posted on 02/04/2019 4:20:45 PM PST by beef (The more they tighten their grip, the more blogs will slip through their fingers.)
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To: Delta 21

>>Where is the article on how to delete what the NSA has on me?

Become a Democrat politician and always tow the party line.


34 posted on 02/04/2019 4:22:06 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: CodeToad

Deleting your FB data has never, ever really happened. It might take them a little time, but if they want to know what you posted 10 years ago on your deleted account, they will retrieve it.


35 posted on 02/04/2019 4:26:39 PM PST by beef (The more they tighten their grip, the more blogs will slip through their fingers.)
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To: RainMan

“they purposely tell everyone they are approx. 1% African”

Is this really surprising? I don’t think they would have to lie about it. If you go back far enough, everyone on the planet is descended from Africans.


36 posted on 02/04/2019 4:33:18 PM PST by beef (The more they tighten their grip, the more blogs will slip through their fingers.)
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To: RightGeek

What a racket, not only do they get their dna database people pay them to do it.


37 posted on 02/04/2019 4:46:35 PM PST by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
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To: ColdOne

Kind of like electing representatives who steal our money and give it to illegal aliens.


38 posted on 02/04/2019 4:56:08 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: beef

That is the mantra by the leftist activist scientists. I do not believe it.

Settled Science is mostly leftist propaganda, intended to promote a political agenda.


39 posted on 02/04/2019 4:59:15 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: RightGeek

Facebook, 23andMe, et cetera:

The Federal government fascistically COLLUDES with all of them to spy on us.


40 posted on 02/04/2019 5:00:42 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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