Posted on 04/26/2018 8:02:06 PM PDT by SpaceBar
Good question, but since I am totally cynical of the government, maybe it’s possible, that every time you have normal blood work done, for your annual physical, they probably do your DNA. I am sure that would probably be illegal, but since when does the government worry about legalities? It’s for the children, is what they would say. /s
From what I read, his last murder was 1986, so DNA would not have been on his radar when he quit. It is unusual that someone like him would quit doing that, so I would not be surprised if he continued, but maybe with a different MO.
“...that every time you have normal blood work done, for your annual physical, they probably do your DNA.”
That is probably in the small print on page 6,231 of the obamacare bill. Goes with the big print where the government has access to all of our medical records.
Yep.
And it also makes it nice and convenient for them to be able to plant samples of your DNA at a crime.
It could be worse, you could find out you’re related to Jimmy Carter.
So much for privacy if you have your DNA tested. Or someone you are related to does.
Maybe We could reduce crime by guaranteeing everyone a government job /s
With the gov’t? Probably less than 1-percent (mostly either criminals, or GI’s who have no choice but to ‘share’).
The bulk of DNA databases belong to private companies (23andme is a good example).
In this case, they found a cousin who came somewhat close to being a match. The rest was just groundwork to establish if he had any member of the family who might have a criminal record.
well yea, I had no idea these genealogy websites where you can pay a fee to and send them cotton swaps of your dna allow police to have access to their database.
only a five-year-old
would believe any of this
It’s scary because there are different search correlations.
Medical and Ancestral.
I don’t want to be denied medical care or insurance because somebody found some risk correlation with one of my siblings.
I hear ya. Everyone is ready to give their DNA to find out they have a lost cousin in a neighboring county.
It seems like it could be a pre-text for anything... no warrants necessary... oh we tracked it through your [pick a relative’s] DNA.
I really don’t understand the motivation for anyone to do it. I just figure that all of us are ‘mixed-up-and-turned-around’ genetically; and it’s not going to change my life any to find out the percentages...I’m still just gonna be Me ;-)
(I’ve never really understood the craze for genealogy at all - I grew up in a family which included some members who prided themselves over our ‘bloodlines’; and it does give you a subjectively valuable sense of history and connection to it, to know who some of those ancestors were, and to think about their lives and times.
But it always struck me that any genealogy could only be as valid as the women were honest..;-)
Yes, they could, and if they did, I doubt they would tell any of us, since we seem to live in a “1984” world. Sometimes I think I am a little too cynical of the government. 😁
Well, if it helps any, ‘government’ usually does things the cheapest way possible. It’s never very efficient, or productive of quality results, at much of anything ;-)
“I don’t like this, at all. The ways in which this could be abused are legion.”
Agreed.
I used Ancestry.com some years ago and was most pleased with what I found about my family, both very good and very bad. I would have never done this if I knew government agencies would have access to it. It is just plain damn wrong.
I am glad they caught this evil man via DNA. I would rather him not be caught as opposed to government access to our DNA profiles without permission. The potential for abuse is far greater than the extreme evil this man did.
Lots of companies require yearly blood work to be a part of the health insurance programs.
God knows where that information end up.
But I agree with you about intentionally giving it up.
No accident that 23 and me founder was married to one of the Google founders.
They are trying to build a database of everything.
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