Let’s all check our DNA

[Raizinman]

Lots of places will test your DNA such as Ancestry, MyHeritage, Helix, DNAFamilyCheck and many others. Basically, they send you a package and you swab your check and send it back to them to get some info about your ethnic background and such.

What are the odds that Homeland Security or some other agency has access to all this DNA information? How nice that people are just freely submitting their DNA.

 

[IronWing]

you swab your cheek

Oops.

 

[MrSquished]

I've been thinking about it so did a little research the other day. Seems 23andme is the best one of the lot. Need to do more research but so far that's it

 

[nakedfrog]

I've thought about doing it myself. The government already has my DNA on file from my time in the military, so no worries for me on that front.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Ancestry doesn't do a swab - they have you fill a tube with spit.

It was harder than I thought it would be.

Mine's in the mail, anyways.

 

[Pantoot]

If you've ever handled a penny the government's got your dna.

 

[John Connor]

What are the odds that Homeland Security or some other agency has access to all this DNA information? How nice that people are just freely submitting their DNA.

Would be illegal. You didn't allow the Feds to take your DNA. Unless there's some secret ultra hidden clause that states something like 'by giving us your DNA you give xyz company the right to do whatever it wants up to and including supply the results to the DOJ and/or making crude animal-like slave humanoids based on your likeness.'

 

[John Connor]

If you've ever handled a penny the government's got your dna.

In that case the feds have nothing. What's a penny?

 

[Rifter]

Lots of places will test your DNA such as Ancestry, MyHeritage, Helix, DNAFamilyCheck and many others. Basically, they send you a package and you swab your check and send it back to them to get some info about your ethnic background and such.

What are the odds that Homeland Security or some other agency has access to all this DNA information? How nice that people are just freely submitting their DNA.

Its very likely, I looked into this a few years ago and if you read there TOS and you will find that they will pretty much sell your DNA info to whoever they want. At least this was the case a few years ago.

Better off paying a private lab IMO.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

If you've ever handled a penny the government's got your dna.

Really? One of the interesting things about copper is that biology doesn't survive long in contact with it.

 

[nakedfrog]

Really? One of the interesting things about copper is that biology doesn't survive long in contact with it.

It's a Simpsons reference.

 

[OutHouse]

Lots of places will test your DNA such as Ancestry, MyHeritage, Helix, DNAFamilyCheck and many others. Basically, they send you a package and you swab your check and send it back to them to get some info about your ethnic background and such.

What are the odds that Homeland Security or some other agency has access to all this DNA information? How nice that people are just freely submitting their DNA.

the gooberment has had my DNA due to military service. so i really dont give a shit.

 

[OutHouse]

Ancestry doesn't do a swab - they have you fill a tube with spit.

It was harder than I thought it would be.

Mine's in the mail, anyways.

wrong, i did the ancestry thing 3 years ago and they sent me the swab.

 

[ctbaars]

Really? One of the interesting things about copper is that biology doesn't survive long in contact with it.

So that's why they changed the penny to Zinc?

 

[dave_the_nerd]

wrong, i did the ancestry thing 3 years ago and they sent me the swab.

Wrong. I spit in a tube this morning.

 

[Raizinman]

Would be illegal. You didn't allow the Feds to take your DNA. Unless there's some secret ultra hidden clause that states something like 'by giving us your DNA you give xyz company the right to do whatever it wants up to and including supply the results to the DOJ and/or making crude animal-like slave humanoids based on your likeness.'

And law enforcement doesn't use Facebook or other social media. And government always follows the law.

 

[Imp]

I've seen the kits and am very interested actually. Government will probably get a copy. Meh.

 

[Red Squirrel]

It's crossed my mind to do it for fun. As for government getting your DNA, they probably already have all that stuff from when you were born anyway.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I saw some web ads recently with National Geographic branding, asking you if you wanted to find out if your ancestors were part Neanderthal. I figure that it was along the same lines as this thread, and figured that the TLAs were behind it.

 

[sdifox]

wrong, i did the ancestry thing 3 years ago and they sent me the swab.

That was the NSA /tinfoil

 

[brianmanahan]

i did it and found out that i was %30 scottish and %70 neffer

 

[Rifter]

You guys are missing the point, its not the government you need to worry about its the insurance companies.

Say you go to apply for health insurance in a year or two after giving up DNA sample and the insurance company has your DNA on file because they bought it from ancestry or whoever and they are like ok you will pay $5000 a month for your health care now due to xyz potential health problems in your DNA.

 

[Sonikku]

The better question is whether the government knows which among the population are Force Sensitive...

 

[Brainonska511]

You guys are missing the point, its not the government you need to worry about its the insurance companies.

Say you go to apply for health insurance in a year or two after giving up DNA sample and the insurance company has your DNA on file because they bought it from ancestry or whoever and they are like ok you will pay $5000 a month for your health care now due to xyz potential health problems in your DNA.

You're right, but you're wrong. It's not health insurance you need to worry about - you're protected against genetic discrimination with respect to employment and health insurance in the US under GINA. It's disability and life insurance that you need to worry about. For the most part, they can't require you get tested, but if you happened to know you had a genetic condition or could develop one in the future as a result of your genes (from a genetic test you had done), that could be a very valid reason for those companies to deny you coverage (depending on state laws).

 

[brianmanahan]

let's all chip our dip!