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While you're laughing at your DNA results... in a few years, you might find yourself unemployable, faced with higher medical coverage, and denied life insurance benefits. Sooner or later, that stuff will finds its way onto the market, whether by the company's choice or the way folk's nude cell phone pics hit the web.

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Sad.

I don't care.

If one of my relatives is a serial rapist/murderer I would be glad to help catch him/her.

If there is a reward for the capture I will give it to my favorite charity.

To complain about it is like complaining about law enforcement using fingerprints when they were first used.

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And that won't just be for you, it will be for all your family members. It just takes one test.

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Investigators: DNA from genealogy site caught former cop now suspected in 13th murder
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-golden-state-killer-suspect-20180426-story.html

More than three decades after his trail went cold, one of California's most prolific and elusive serial killers was caught when investigators matched crime-scene DNA with genetic material stored by a relative on an online genealogical site, prosecutors said Thursday.

Authorities have said the DNA tied former police officer Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, to most of the 12 killings he is accused of committing between 1976 and 1986 as part of the Golden State Killer case.

Investigators also allege DeAngelo raped more than 50 women during that period.

Authorities declined to name the DNA site used to track the DNA.

Companies such as Ancestry.com and 23andMe charge customers to use their DNA to produce genetic profiles that determine ethnicity and can identify long-lost relatives, among other services. Both companies said Thursday they weren't involved in the case against DeAngelo.

That DNA later on could be helpful in so many ways..


for adoptees looking for birth family
determining paternity
catching criminals
detecting genetic diseases

Of course police departments MUST process all DNA available in crimes too...even if it costs tax money..

As a society, we gave up anonymity/privacy LONG AGO..

They permit their results to be made available to others or upload their data on their own to websites where people look for familial matches. So instead of matching with the boring descendants of a store clerk who was transported to the West Indies for stealing 4 shillings worth of lace from her employer, they have biological links to a crazed murderer. Better the FBI should find him before they do...

The govt is drooling over the prospect. Notice how the Republicans have been pushing that hard for years? I suspect they have a use for all that medical information in mind. Who has had an abortion? Who MIGHT have an abortion? Who had an abortion? Who has AIDS or HIV?

countries they are working at not allowing the people into the US. You have a Guatemalan fourth cousin you did not know about and that would put you on a list of suspected terrorist. No, I will not give my blood to find out who I am because I would not put it past this administration.