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   Charles Ellson to chris@dickinson.uk.net   
   Re: DNA, cousins, police, and privacy   
   06 May 18 22:51:27   
   
   From: ce11son@yahoo.ca   
      
   On Sun, 6 May 2018 12:44:52 -0700 (PDT), Chris Dickinson   
    wrote:   
      
   >My brother has just sent to me this link to an article in 'The Economist'.   
   >   
   >https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21741536-   
   id-so-tracing-suspect-distant-relatives-dna   
   >   
   >Seems to me that it raises (or maybe 'reports') some important issues. I was   
   especially struck by the ending two sentences:   
   >   
   >"That, though, may bring about a different problem, of genetic snooping, in   
   which people   
   >obtain the sequences of others without their consent, from things like   
   >discarded coffee cups. At that point genetic privacy really will be a   
   >thing of the past."   
   >   
   Not new :-   
   https://www.easydna.co.uk/infidelity-dna-test/   
   "Infidelity DNA testing: Will our test confirm infidelity?"   
   The easiest sample is possibly other people's hair.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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