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23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users
(techcrunch.com)
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this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2023
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You're paranoid and she's probably part of the leak.
The odds the government gives any kind of shit about your 23 and me data, much less could competently do anything with it, are vanishingly small. That's just pure paranoia.
Not really.. this info can and is being used in solving crimes. That and, if the US government ever turns into a dictatorship (hello trump!) then you won't have to worry of being put on a list, you are already on one.
I'm on several. Social security, the draft, etc.
Point is the search methodology required has so far been worth it to catch one person. That person was a serial rapist and murderer. Hardly compelling.
Lists you are on contain information that can be modified, updated. I lived at A? I move to B. You can't change your DNA and if that would be abused, that would be much,uch worse than social security info
Sadly you are mistaken here, the government is very interested in your DNA data. Check out this article about how they caught the golden state killer: