'Golden State Killer' was caught using a genealogy website, police reveal

[StormBreaker]

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Bhaion, here is the anjam of trying some of those tamil 80%, mongol 111% websites

 

[PakSword]

@Path-Finder @PakSword @Pakhtoon yum

Bhaion, here is the anjam of trying some of those tamil 80%, mongol 111% websites

Abey main ne hi post kia hai yeh..

 

[StormBreaker]

Abey main ne hi post kia hai yeh..

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[Rusty]

But they are Communist dictatorships with no rule of law or an independent judiciary.

I fear about privacy issues too but why is DNA extra fearful?
Isn’t it similar to a fingerprint database?
Or if you have a passport the government already knows about you.

Communist or not, the people should always be fearful of their governments.
You have a point of the finger print, but DNA is literally your identity.

Governments having access to my identity is scary.

I think they only uses commercial DNA database such as ancestry.com. Those are when you already agree to submit your DNA sample into a public domain, because not just you can access to such information.

Now whether or not they should be able to do that would be another issue, but the lawyer side of me would think that no one should ever give up their DNA sample voluntary.



It was studied in law school actually. If you want to know more, read this blog

https://sites.psu.edu/dhlaw/2010/05/30/dna-versus-fingerprints/

But in case you want a short answer, there were 2 reasons.

1.) The scare of misusing it. Since this is so identifiable, misusing it would be an issue
2.) Fear of manipulation of DNA, again, with such an unique identified (I think the comparison ratio is now down to a few billions to 1 chance), the fear of manipulation is quite out there.

agreed.
And the thought went through my mind about voluntarily giving up my DNA.... but like I said, curiosity got the better of me.
I know know that I have some Goa DNA in me

 

[El Sidd]

Artificial Intelligence has been trained to spot markers in the DNA for serial trouble makers.

Project Eye is a mass surveillance device with a mind of its own.

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