HAHAHAHAHA

If your sister, child, or even a cousin gets tested, so did you. They can find you easily if enough people in your extended family have been tested.

And insurance companies can extrapolate enough health info to refuse to sell you life insurance, or an employer could rate you as a health care cost risk and not employ you.

This is a privacy nightmare that goes way beyond finding criminals.

People all over the country are finding out there father wasn't their biological father (and that person is being id'd), or that they have half siblings they never knew about because of a business trip their father took in the 80's or 90's.

And insurance companies are using dna test results to make policy decisions.

I think, I think I am, therefore I am, I think.
[Establishment:] Of course you are my bright little star,
I've miles
And miles
Of files
Pretty files of your forefather's fruit
And now to suit our
Great computer,
You're magnetic ink.
I'm more than that, I know I am, at least, I think I must be.
[Inner Man:] There you go man, keep as cool as you can.
Face piles
And piles
Of trials
With smiles.
It riles them to believe
That you perceive
The web they weave
And keep on thinking free.

They can use the DNA from a close relative to find you. Of course we want criminals off the street but the privacy concerns are huge.

People made the decision to take the risk and reveal their own DNA to these companies.

And in the process they revealed so much more.

Fools are already voluntarily doing it, but how long until it becomes mandatory? There are some places where you can't even pay cash for things (a suburb of Vancouver won't take cash for property taxes, for instance). All your banking and credit card info on your smartphone will make it so much easier. RFID chips in all your products will make checkouts so much more convenient. We're moving into the dystopian future science fiction warned us about. I'm glad I won't be around to see most of it.

for the privilege of tracking us...

Thing irony is...we paid for the government to end up with our DNA.

they can catch him/her by looking at your DNA. One of my cousins has a son who gets in trouble. If I want to find out what part of Scotland my ancestors lived in, that could result in his arrest. Is that what I want?

I quit a genetic genealogy Yahoo group over their attitudes about letting law enforcement go on fishing expeditions in this sort of data.

Also, I suspected FTDNA of colluding with law enforcement for this. GEDmatch does not do it's own testing, you have to have a raw DNA file from a testing company to upload to their database for matching. FTDNA is the only direct-to-consumer DNA company that does testing and matching on the Y chromosome, and since the vast majority of serious cold-case violent crime is committed by males, it makes sense that the FBI would try to get its hands on their data first.

I was adopted, and for four years now, I have been trying to use DNA to find my genetic family. If people are afraid to test, that deprives me of potential matches with which to triangulate who my ancestors are. I'm debating whether to quit FTDNA over this, but I don't want to potentially miss out should a half sibling or half first cousin pick them to test with someday.

unless council is present. I will never hand anyone or company my DNA unless ordered to by a court of law. And you can bet your ass the the DNA companies are selling your DNA to the health insurance and pharmaceutical companies.