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@Life_is @nblr But you have to admit that you could have found a person fleeing domestic violence, hiding with their relatives, in the old analog days by looking in a phone book. Yeah?

19 Oct 2023 at 6:09 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mindly.social
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C.Suthorn :prn:

@TisTree @nblr

You can change telephone number, address, email, social media accounts, personal web sites, hair style, eye color with contact lenses, look with cosmetic chirurgy, even gender by taking hormones.

But you cannot change your own DNA, the DNA of your relatives, or forbid your relatives to have their DNA atchived by 23andme, competing companies or the state.

it is a biometric feature and unchangable by definition.

19 Oct 2023 at 6:27 | Open on no-pony.farm
Tree

@Life_is @nblr 23 and me isn’t the only repository of DNA info. It’s a blip in a giant cache of genome information.

19 Oct 2023 at 6:49 | Open on mindly.social
C.Suthorn :prn:

@TisTree @nblr

And still 23andme published millions profiles of most private data, endangering for eternity not only millions of people but also dozens of millions of their relatives and all their offspring from now to the end of life on earth (or at least to the end of computer use by DNA-based lifeforms on earth). Each time another DNA database provider publishes their DNA profiles, the new data can and will be combined with the existing public data, multiplying the threat and rising exponentially.

19 Oct 2023 at 6:58 | Open on no-pony.farm
Tree

@Life_is @nblr So the threat to all who have had their genome data released is privacy for themselves and their families. Privacy is the issue, yeah?

19 Oct 2023 at 7:06 | Open on mindly.social
C.Suthorn :prn:

@TisTree @nblr

Human rights, citizen rights are the issue. Without privacy, you may no longer dare to actually express your meaning, work as a journalist, live your religion, go to the doctor etc.

19 Oct 2023 at 7:10 | Open on no-pony.farm
Tree

@Life_is @nblr So you’re saying that your human rights have been compromised as a result of one of your relatives submitting their dna sample to 23andMe? Serious question. I’m really trying to understand this.

19 Oct 2023 at 7:14 | Open on mindly.social
Stephan Schulz

@TisTree @Life_is @nblr You can kill a person with a rock. So why are we concerned about nuclear weapons?

19 Oct 2023 at 6:31 | Open on fosstodon.org
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