I'm screwed since I'm sure my DNA is on file somewhere since I am a veteran, but... More people need to know this.
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DoD doesn't have your complete DNA profile. Just mitochondrial DNA for identifying your remains.
Just.
That's more than enough, IMO.
Also if you have relatives using ancestry then they basically have your DNA already anyway. Lots of my relatives did this long ago when I told them not to π
And they can use that data to tie you to crimes you may or may not have committed.
Thatβs easy to throw out in court tbh - but thatβs also the same reason why women wonβt get rape kits done in the US in a lot of states
Is it? Wow. I never knew that. But gosh, it makes sense... But that's still awful.
Yeah it sucks! States either collect the rape kits and then donβt actually test them *at all* or they use the rape kits to charge the victims w other crimes (often non violent property crimes) itβs all extremely demonic
what are the potential implications of this? disease targeting? ethnicity targeting? i'm not too clear on the implication. also do they go through all the DNA, i thought that was really expensive to sequence.
It's the genetic base of your social graph. All family members are associable and that's graph 1. All family members' friends are associated, through various means, back to the family members and that's graph 2.
It's simply the insidiousness of being able to trivially figure out "known associations" and that sounds a lot like "round up the usual suspects" to me.