[mdlug] DNA Insights - Sequence or test your DNA for health reasons

[Jay]

Greetings,
    I will NOT have my DNA on record, because I have NO idea who will hold 
those records and what *their* morals and policies are.  We have recently 
seen a DNA company close its doors, but did the company that bought them 
have the policies/morals that we agree with?  Will/can a DNA company 
change their policies in the future?  Can they suffer a break-in or theft 
of that data?  Could the "value" of DNA records ever become such that a 
theft market develops?  Will they ever suffer a DOGE-like invasion of 
their data center and then we have NO IDEA who has our personal data, how 
they will maintain it securely, and what evil use they may put it to???

    We have not even touched upon possibilities of "cloning" and 
near-replications.  Shit!  I give blood samples for health checks.  I 
wonder *if* there may someday be a severe risk in doing so. Hmmmm....

    There are only a *few* reasons why it would be nice to take a DNA test, 
but there are MANY MANY MANY reasons why NOT to!

    Jurassic Park / Jeff Goldblum - "preoccupied with whether you COULD, 
but never considering if you SHOULD".


       --- Jay Nugent


On Wed, 10 Dec 2025, Steve Litt wrote:

>
> On Mon, 8 Dec 2025 12:40:50 -0600
> Gib <gibmaxn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What do you folks think about getting your DNA tested?
>>
>> I see on-line sites that start at a cost of about $300 that will
>> provide details related to thousands of conditions.
>>
>> Computers and AI are making this possible.  What other advances have
>> we seen?
>
> This is offtopic but what the heck...
>
> I would NEVER get my DNA tested. Doing so would put my relatives,
> current and future, in danger of arrest, via the wonders of
> Investigative Genetic Genealogy.
>
> I know what you're thinking: Your relatives wouldn't commit crimes.
> I'll bet every single person on this list has committed a crime and not
> been caught, and I'll bet some have committed felonies. Don't forget
> that what's perfectly acceptable behavior in one state can be a felony
> in another.
>
> Imagine in 1985 your Uncle George beat the living shit out of some
> clown who was threatening a woman. And when the bad guy turned and ran,
> your Uncle George chased him down and broke several of the guy's bones.
> The guy died of his wounds six weeks later. Unfortunately, Uncle George
> got a little of his blood on the guy, and that evidence was preserved.
> Because none of us are lawyers, every one of us would probably applaud
> Uncle George's actions, but in the eyes of the law, it's some form of
> homicide.
>
> Uncle George lived an exemplary life afterward, but now some cold case
> guy goes to reinvestigate the thing, hires a genetic investigator who
> finds your DNA, determines it was a close relative of yours, and via a
> very easy investigation of all your living relatives, and finds out
> it's your 70 year old Uncle George, loving husband, father of three,
> grandfather of 11, and now Uncle George will probably spend his
> remaining days in prison.
>
> Laws change. Imagine your great-granddaughter committing the crime of
> helping an unmarried woman have a baby. Your great-granddaughter's
> sweat gets on the blanket, the DNA squad compares that sweat to your
> DNA, and instead of it being one person in eight billion, it's one
> person in a few hundred.
>
> Imagine some future time when the economy is ten times worse than the
> Great Depression. Your great-great-grandson steals a loaf of bread and
> is knifed by the grocer but gets away, after bleeding on the
> artichokes. The DNA squad checks the records, finds your DNA, narrows
> it down to your descendants, and puts the kid away for 30 years.
>
> There are also problems with health insurance if and when we go back to
> preexistingcare, which looks like it will happen in the next five
> years. There are problems with drug companies patenting things based on
> your DNA such that you must pay a sky high price for these new genetic
> cures they're coming up with.
>
> Don't   do   it   !
>
>
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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