I’d like to but the privacy problems are holding me back
I found it useful. It enabled me to break through a genealogy “brick wall” by connecting with a 3rd cousin who had more info on a pair of my (our) great-great-grandparents.
I’m not too concerned about privacy. I shed DNA all over the place just by existing, so I’m not really expecting that information to be private going forward.
Seeing as how no company can be trusted, no.
Eh it’s no big deal. I leave dna samples all over and I don’t get to learn neat stuff from those.
Hard no. Huge privacy issues with all of those companies and questionable how useful/accurate the data you get back is anyway.
Yeah if there was a way for it to be private and anonymous with many layers of protections, I’d be interested. But. There isn’t.
If you want to be up for snitching on your old timey serial killing relatives, you do you but it’s not for me.
If I remember right didn’t the Golden state killer get caught by a distant relative taking a DNA test?
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they asked a relative to take a DNA test
Really? I thought that the relative had already taken a DNA test and published the results on GEDmatch.
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Huh, interesting. There’s no mention of that in the Wikipedia summary. How closely related was this relative? Do you have a source I could take a look at?
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Do you recall the title of the movie?
Wikipedia says that they obtained samples from his car door and trash can.