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Something very important to me. Everyone of you could help give families peace and justice using your DNA
- Thread starter TrustTheProcess
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No OP. DNA has been misused in prosecutions before to get innocent people jailed. People have been sent to prison for 20+ years because the cops mistook dog hair as their own.
Snitches get stitches.
...but seriously, I'm not giving a company my DNA. I'm too paranoid for thatshit, whether or not my reasoning is justified.
...but seriously, I'm not giving a company my DNA. I'm too paranoid for thatshit, whether or not my reasoning is justified.
So besides the potentiality of the police fucking up, and using your DNA to throw an innocent in prison (as if that wasn't bad enough), is that the only worry that exists with doing this?
What are ya'll thinking will happen with your DNA? That some corporation will make an ERA cloned super mutant army to take over the country?
What are ya'll thinking will happen with your DNA? That some corporation will make an ERA cloned super mutant army to take over the country?
Hard pass.
My DNA is mine. I don't feel comfortable with someone having my DNA and using it in a manner that could incriminate me for something I did not do. I know the odds of that are astronomical, but i'm just not taking that chance.
My DNA is mine. I don't feel comfortable with someone having my DNA and using it in a manner that could incriminate me for something I did not do. I know the odds of that are astronomical, but i'm just not taking that chance.
I remember this argument (with slightly different nouns) from about 2009. I think it was about Facebook or Google having access to your personal data. Something like that. Maybe my memory is just weird though.
I recommend you look into the general topic of DNA copyright and how pharmaceutical companies are trying to copyright stuff like this. https://www.gqlifesciences.com/copyright-for-engineered-dna/
Also it's not hard to imagine a future where you could be denied insurance because a voluntary DNA scan you submitted found a chance to have certain conditions.
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The futute: "23andme has been selling your DNA to shady genetics firm"
Farther in the future: "Shady genetics firm is using your DNA to identify diseases (and why that's a good thing)"
Father in the future still: "Shady genetics firm has secretly been selling your information to drug companies all along"
HEY THERE LOOKS LIKE YOU HAVE THE GENTIC MARKERS FOR DISLOCATED KNEE SYNDROME. TRY ARGESTOVIN TO FIX THAT SHIT!
Farther in the future: "Shady genetics firm is using your DNA to identify diseases (and why that's a good thing)"
Father in the future still: "Shady genetics firm has secretly been selling your information to drug companies all along"
HEY THERE LOOKS LIKE YOU HAVE THE GENTIC MARKERS FOR DISLOCATED KNEE SYNDROME. TRY ARGESTOVIN TO FIX THAT SHIT!
Yeah, do this one if you're really looking to do something akin to this to help out.
My concern is with medical insurance costs. If the data is sold to insurance companies, they could then make judgements on how much you pay by the genetic likelihoods of you developing xyz, which could easily price people out of cover.
In a late stage capitalistic society where corporations want nothing more than every way possible to fuck over end users to nickle and dime them into the grave? Fuck no, OP. You gotta be dim to think that giving your DNA to a fucking genealogy company is a good idea and for a greater, higher cause.
The government (to my knowledge) doesn't have my DNA or finger prints. I aim to keep it that way.
No way I'm doing this.
I did do this though. I've never been called, but still glad to have done it.
I did do this though. I've never been called, but still glad to have done it.
I don't want my dna sitting in some repository just waiting for a rich piece of shit who needs an organ to match to for harvesting.
Jesus Christ, hell no to voluntarily giving my DNA to some anonymous company I don't know anything about. They have enough information on me already from the tracking cookies to amazon recommending me movies I just talked about to my friends with. The breach of privacy is already terrifying enough and you want people to willingly give their DNA to some random company, in the slight hope it will solve a cold case then using an appeal to emotion of a case it did solve? Its slim pickings not to mention what happens when the wrong people get their hands on a DNA database such as being framed for a crime, or what happens when you have similar DNA to what was found in a crime scene. Hell we're breaching minority report shit here.
If i'm just an average nobody should using something like Ancestry be a bad idea? I could care less if they have my DNA.
Hmm. Interesting read. Thank you.
Couldn't companies hoping to use the genetic code gleaned from DNA just get it elsewhere if they really needed or wanted to? Like a hospital or any other number of facilities or businesses that might come across or have access to a persons DNA?
So, I guess the argument becomes, is it worth it, at this point in time to willingly give my DNA to potentially save an innocent humans life in a court of justice, along with possible mis identification in those same courts versus a hypothetical chance that my DNA could make some other future coptoation money in genetic coding/synthetic biology?
I'm not an expert in the field or a fortune teller, so I can understand a lot of people with a layman's knowledge of this, just don't care about a possible future they may or may not be able to reap the benefits of.
Genetic markers for disease. We cn't trust that preexisting condition protections will last forever. And once that happens, insurers will use these results to deny coverage.