Reply to post: Spike the DNA company guns

I'm a crime-fighter, says FamilyTreeDNA boss after being caught giving folks' DNA data to FBI

Chris Manson

Spike the DNA company guns

Easy; just get two or more people together and agree to swap everyone's personal details. Use someone elses details with your DNA. When the results come in, you all just pass over the results to the right person. If anything DOES occur in the future, simply insist they do another DNA check and/or threaten whomever that they have it all wrong and sue them. Once that happens a few times, they won't be able to rely on the database any more. After all, people pay to get their results, not to have some company make money on the side. It's kind of like having a dead family member in for funeral preparation, but they get their organs harvested as well. Immoral. I suggest that 'opting out' of having DNA shared is as credible as internet companies agreeing not to track you and use cookies etc, without your explicit permission.

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