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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's hilarious that a company as sleazy as 23andme is suddenly pretending it has principles. [/quote]
23 n Me has nothing to do with random DNA checks. You all  are living in ignorance. No, police cannot just send DNA through a  private"database"- it does not ever work that way. Your medical records with your blood lab and dr's office has already been  hacked numerous times. But no one is finding criminals in Ancestry or 23 n Me or any of the private companies. 
They run it through public databases to make a match with some very extended relative and work back from there with public records. The perp doesn't even need to have had any DNA test done. It takes a very short time to  narrow down a person from one hit.

Here's what none of you get- you don't have to have ever taken a test at all. If any of your extended relatives has DNA  on any site,  public or private,  you do too. Game  is over. Your DNA is already  out there, and  anyone  can locate anyone  connected from one hit distant hit.   It would take me maybe an hour to figure out who  you are. Maybe  less.

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No one said they had anything to do with random DNA checks. The police has historically had to get a warrant but now 23andme is claiming "privacy" issues (much like apple has) and they don't want to give it. But it's not about privacy... As someone noted earlier, it's about optics for business. Sleazy.

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Again, no. Police use public DNA databases. If they need more, as an example  a private  DNA company, yes, they would  need  warrant,  but that is no different than  getting a warrant  of any doctor  or  blood/ tissue lab to do the same  thing. That's how they got the BTK killer-his daughter's  pap smear that they got a warrant to get.  Your DNA is everywhere. It's  not more in peril by using a DNA kit. Your privacy isn't upheld because you didn't get your DNA tested, it's  still out there. My advice- don't commit crimes. [/quote]

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