We can ID people from DNA that shows up in environmental studies
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Re: We can ID people from DNA that shows up in environmental studies
#2Wow, it had never occurred to me that the government might establish mass, passive DNA collection. Sort of reminds me of the East Germans and their little scent jars... Would the government have to tell us if they had collected our DNA through passive means in public?
Re: We can ID people from DNA that shows up in environmental studies
#3Gattaca air filtration tracking here we come.
Re: We can ID people from DNA that shows up in environmental studies
#4The thing to keep in mind is that that data can't be just be linked automatically to people, they need, as the article says to "compare these sequences to public genetic data without too much difficulty."
It's just another version of a researching accidentally capturing you in a camera, but much harder to link you to the captured information.
Re: We can ID people from DNA that shows up in environmental studies
#5The thing to keep in mind is that that data can't be just be linked automatically to people, they need, as the article says to "compare these sequences to public genetic data without too much difficulty." It's just another version of a researching accidentally capturing you in a camera, but much harder to link you to the captured information.
We're a small step right now from the police getting access to genetic databases like 23andMe, so if anyone in your family tree has gotten a genetic test it may be possible for them to identify you based on ancestry.
Re: We can ID people from DNA that shows up in environmental studies
#6Blood is sampled at birth in America, so we aren't too far away from being able to identify people who litter forever.
Just takes one policy change... we are building the cells of a possible future prison.
Re: We can ID people from DNA that shows up in environmental studies
#7The thing to keep in mind is that that data can't be just be linked automatically to people, they need, as the article says to "compare these sequences to public genetic data without too much difficulty." It's just another version of a researching accidentally capturing you in a camera, but much harder to link you to the captured information.
We're a small step right now from the police getting access to genetic databases like 23andMe, so if anyone in your family tree has gotten a genetic test it may be possible for them to identify you based on ancestry.
Then they'd know that that person had a relative there. We're still a lot of dots away from going "Well, we found this DNA by accident, it was clearly and obvious Bob was there."
Re: We can ID people from DNA that shows up in environmental studies
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
We're a small step right now from the police getting access to genetic databases like 23andMe, so if anyone in your family tree has gotten a genetic test it may be possible for them to identify you based on ancestry.
Then they'd know that that person had a relative there. We're still a lot of dots away from going "Well, we found this DNA by accident, it was clearly and obvious Bob was there."
I'm expecting the Republicans (if they haven't already) to insist that immigrants get their DNA put into databases. The argument would be that US citizens of long standing are already likely to have relatives in such databases (along with the genealogical information to exploit it) while criminal immigrants would be cloaked from such scrutiny, at least at first.
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#9Blood is sampled at birth in America, so we aren't too far away from being able to identify people who litter forever. Just takes one policy change... we are building the cells of a possible future prison.
That's... Incredibly scary.
Re: We can ID people from DNA that shows up in environmental studies
#10Blood is sampled at birth in America, so we aren't too far away from being able to identify people who litter forever. Just takes one policy change... we are building the cells of a possible future prison.
You could say the same about fingerprints, facial recognition, or behavior patterns. People get really paranoid about DNA for some reason but then willingly give out other kinds of PIID without caring.