[RocketOne]

Even worse though, is that it doesnt even have to be you submitting your data. Several killers have been caught because their family members have submitted DNA and the killers have been tracked down using DNA ancestry. It really sucks, because it only takes one gullible person to really expose your family to data mining.

[celrod]

If any of my family members are secretly killers, I would not feel bad about them getting caught...

But I would feel bad if, e.g., insurance premiums were to go up because I had inherited risk factors for some costly diseases.

[chunkyks]

Or even worse, premiums went up because you could have inherited costly diseases (but didn't), and they have no way to verify it unless you also prostrate yourself on the altar of no privacy.

[lucubratory]

How confident are you that the government of the country you live in will use the ability to genetically trace the entire population through long range genetic scanning to harm only people you think deserve to be harmed? Keeping in mind that as long as these databases are allowed to exist, the genetic information itself remains relevant for hundreds of years?

Basically, this let's the government put a tracker on every person as long as they can get to where that person was within a couple of months to years (depending on conditions), and every future government gets to decide exactly who should be subject to that level of surveillance, what crime is bad enough to justify it. Do you trust the government of the United States 100 years from now to be that aligned with your personal views? Zero concern that a Hitler-figure could arise in the US and use that power to exterminate large numbers of people?

[User23]

If you were born in a hospital your DNA is already collected[1]. You may as well benefit from it too.

Also, bringing murderers to justice is a pretty odd thing to object to.

[1] https://www.aclu.org/documents/newborn-dna-banking

[alistairSH]

Two wrongs don’t make a right. I object to non-consensual collection of newborn DNA as well.

And it’s not bringing murderers to justice per se. It’s the implications to others. I don’t want MegaCorp extrapolating my medical history via my cousin’s DNA.

[brnaftr361]

Yeah, but now you're associated with a killer, whatever SNPs you share pile up into correlates.

Insurance companies see you as feckless, lenders see you as risky, law enforcement sees you as a likely criminal, justice sees you as a burden.

And maybe it wasn't even you that volunteered the sample. And maybe I share some of the SNPs, and maybe I have some countermutations, but they aren't properly analyzed. Now my feet are in the fire despite no predisposition to violence or recklessness just an association.

This is one step and I expect another. For the greater good, for security, for the safety of the nation, for the children.

[graphe]

I sure hope they don't use my DNA to catch any criminals. I hope they roam around undetected as before, I would never harbor any bad feelings towards any members of my family regardless of their rape, murder or other crimes. You don't want them in prison either, and wouldn't believe they did anything wrong regardless of the DNA and OTHER substantial evidence would you?