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Explain what someone’s realistically going to do with your DNA data.

You are obviously oblivious to how mass-surveillance works, and how much it can destroy our freedoms. Services like 23AndMe keep a database over all the DNA they have received. This database is often shared with governments, and can be used to create relationship maps - who is what to whom. This information can be and is being weaponized against us on a daily basis.

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RazorsLedge@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
In what ways is it actively being weaponized? Examples, sources?

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jimbo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Services like 23AndMe keep a database over all the DNA they have received.

Yes, it’s how they provide the service.

This database is often shared with governments, and can be used to create relationship maps - who is what to whom.

Your evidence for this claim?

This information can be and is being weaponized against us on a daily basis.

How? By who? What’s your evidence?

I’m betting you have no evidence and will simply appeal to some instance where some company sold some data to the government in a situation that isn’t at all analogous.

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- ScaNtuRd@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The evidence is literally publicly available. It takes mere seconds to find court records and articles online. But it is just easier for you to sit there and scream “what is your evidence?” as some headless chicken, right?
  
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  - jimbo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I’m not going to try and guess what you think the evidence is. If it’s as readily available as you claim, it should be trivial for you go find it and show me. The fact that you haven’t yet is telling about how honest you’re actually being.
    
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