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Re: would you object if ancestry.com & 23andme gave your DNA to LE to help solve crimes?

I wouldn't object at all. Yes I value privacy highly, but for me there's a much greater good in catching criminals like that Golden State guy. When I think about what he did to all those women I feel physically ill. I think what if that was me or someone I loved.

 

We all give up privacy for a greater good in some measure on a regular basis. It's an endless debate and it always will be.

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Re: would you object if ancestry.com & 23andme gave your DNA to LE to help solve crimes?

If you don't want to have to worry about who may have your DNA or any other private information, simply don't commit acts that you have to worry about getting caught for. See - simple.

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Re: would you object if ancestry.com & 23andme gave your DNA to LE to help solve crimes?


@LoriLori wrote:

@151949 wrote:

When I got my DNA kit I had to go to Ancestry's website to activate it. One of the questions was if I wanted my results shared or kept private. If you say private - only you get the results.If you say shared they are public.So it is all in your own hands what happens to your results. Also they asked if they could use the DNA for other purposes like research. Your choice.


 

Interesting!  Did it specify under "shared" whether that's with only with other Ancestry users or whether they could hand it over to the FBI for CODIS?


  @LoriLori  I have a friend who is an executive in the tech industry.He has always said that it doesn’t matter if you withhold consent .If you conduct any kind of activity on the internet it’s never private.Shopping, banking etc. it doesn’t matter.It’s not really private!! Note all the hacks we keep reading about.

    Bottom line, if it’s on the internet your information is vulnerable to hackers & government agencies!! To some extent most people have some sort of relationship with the internet.We are posting here!! Some of us are on FB. At this point the possible consequences are unavoidable.

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Re: would you object if ancestry.com & 23andme gave your DNA to LE to help solve crimes?

You will never find my DNA on any of those testing sites.

 

I don't like some of the extended family members I already know, I don't need to find more!

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Re: would you object if ancestry.com & 23andme gave your DNA to LE to help solve crimes?


@Group 5 minus 1 wrote:

What about finger prints?


I was thinking the same thing.  Anyone who has had them taken for a job is in some massive data base - right?  So really, what's the difference?

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Re: would you object if ancestry.com & 23andme gave your DNA to LE to help solve crimes?

I feel the greater good came from this ,they caught a killer.

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Re: would you object if ancestry.com & 23andme gave your DNA to LE to help solve crimes?

You don't think you have a choice, that's why some people don't get involved with that stuff.  Hospitals are doing genetic profiles to diagnose and treat patients now but your genetic profile is confidential and private however the same is not true for those "for profit" companies.  When you give them your DNA, it's out there and you cannot pull it back.   If my DNA led to some distant relative I knew nothing about, I wouldn't be upset at all.  It wouldn't matter if they had my permission or not.  

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Re: would you object if ancestry.com & 23andme gave your DNA to LE to help solve crimes?


@Isobel Archer wrote:

@Group 5 minus 1 wrote:

What about finger prints?


I was thinking the same thing.  Anyone who has had them taken for a job is in some massive data base - right?  So really, what's the difference?


If you had your finger prints taken for any reason, they are entered into the FBI’s data base called IAFIS.

 

Your prints can be run in the base for possible matches.  The prints that are a possible match are then sent to a fingerprint expert who looks at them individually to possibly find the exact match.

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Re: would you object if ancestry.com & 23andme gave your DNA to LE to help solve crimes?

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@Carmie wrote:

@Isobel Archer wrote:

@Group 5 minus 1 wrote:

What about finger prints?


I was thinking the same thing.  Anyone who has had them taken for a job is in some massive data base - right?  So really, what's the difference?


If you had your finger prints taken for any reason, they are entered into the FBI’s data base called IAFIS.

 

Your prints can be run in the base for possible matches.  The prints that are a possible match are then sent to a fingerprint expert who looks at them individually to possibly find the exact match.


No. I would not object as long as it was in their privacy statement. I know others may not agree with me on this, but if they can take your footprints at birth, personally I think they should be able to take blood to recognize your DNA too...also a full set of fingerprints. Then they should enter both into the FBI database. We'd spend a lot less money trying to solve crimes then, and we would solve them more quickly. If you've got nothing to hide, you have no need to worry. JMO.

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Re: would you object if ancestry.com & 23andme gave your DNA to LE to help solve crimes?

Yes, there should be objection.

 

Fingerprints/blood samples are obtained in a controlled environment.  

TV DNA tests (spit-in-a-bottle) could easily be altered in someone’s

bathroom or enroute via delivery. 

 

Could never understand why someone would want to do these tests.

So inaccurate & it’s not a matter of IF someone’s misusing your info,

it’s a matter of WHEN.