[RightGeek]

It's just common sense. "Don't take your business on the street"

[Kalamata]

Gov’t has been working hand in hand with these companies to develop a national gov’t DNA database, much like the fingerprint data.

I guess one could protect one’s DNA info from the general public, but no way from the government.

[TADSLOS]

Delete Your Data...

That’s cute.

[Slyfox]

23andMe is connected to Silicon Valley and they plan to do more with the DNA they get from you than just hooking up people to who you are related to.

I would not do 23andMe.

[rey]

It has been interesting that arrests and prosecutions resulting from DNA tests have not been challenged on 5th amendment grounds. In many cases, the DNA tests were those of family members that came up close to the DNA they were looking for. Never, in any of the stories or cases, is it questioned how law enforcement had access to such information. If any other company gave up info without a warrant being served, they would find themselves in all sorts of trouble and law suits.

[discostu]

Not gonna help. Best case scenario it’ll still be on the backups which they can get to if they really want (are ordered) to. Data is permanent.

[RainMan]

I adamantly refuse to participate in these scams. My daughter chose to have one done, and it came back and told her that she was 1/4 Scandinavian. I told her it was BS, because a) I personally knew all of her grandparents and there was no Scandinavian blood listed or claimed by any of them. b) I did the family genealogy 20 years ago back to the 15-1600's, and did not find a single Scandinavian ancestor (not many Scandinavian Amish back in the 17-1800's). They also said she was 1% black. (Needless to say, with 17 generations of records on my side, that is a Narf.) They also told her she had 0% American Indian blood, even though the family came to America in the the 1500's and rode a covered wagon over the Oregon Trail. If ANY ethnicity were to creep in, I would think Indian would be it.

That brings up another point. I heard that they purposely tell everyone they are approx. 1% African, in order to make people less racist. In short, they are lying for political ends. If you assume 25 years (+/-) per generation, this means that for a 25 y.o today, one of their GGGGG Grandparents, running around in 1800 was creating mixed race children, and one of the mixed race children was a direct ancestor. Sorry, that was not common back then, and seeing how history recorded the brothers that killed each other because the one was sleeping with the other's wife, and the GGGGG aunt that was kidnapped by the Indians and married into the tribe, I doubt a black ancestor would have been hidden.

In short, I believe these sites exist for the SINGLE purpose of collecting DNA so that they can be subpoenaed at some future point to deny medical claims once government healthcare is the only option.

[Blogger]

I’ve had both Ancestry and 23andMe do my DNA and then submitted it to GedMatch. So far, I’ve found a few relatives and that I have a gene for Age related macular degeneration that isn’t likely to affect me one way or the other and a gene for Celiac disease that slightly increases my risk of getting it.

DNA or no DNA if you don’t think the gov’t knows pretty much anything meaningful about you, you’re delusional.

Haven’t fully understood why people get worked up over access to DNA. Could they create a supergerm that wipes you out because they know of genetic vulnerability? Yeah. But, if we are at that point, it would probably be a better end.

[Sergio]

bkmk

[bgill]

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

[Don W]

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!

[wjcsux]

Bookmark.

[montag813]

They won’t EVER delete your actual DNA.

[BereanBrain]

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

[CodeToad]

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.

[a fool in paradise]

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.

[ColdOne]

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

[YogicCowboy]

Facebook, 23andMe, et cetera:

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