ga.prime said:
Because if private insurance companies are doing genetic testing without consent, then they are open to HUGE liability! I can assure you that if this is happening, there will be one heck of a class-action suit.
Getting your DNA with the COVID-19 swab........
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Because if private insurance companies are doing genetic testing without consent, then they are open to HUGE liability! I can assure you that if this is happening, there will be one heck of a class-action suit.
sim.-ang.king
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Just wait till we have full socialist healthcare, and they start determining if you get treated or not based on your DNA profile.
Any breach of privacy should be a big deal, but yet people are so willing and open to give it away nowdays.
Any breach of privacy should be a big deal, but yet people are so willing and open to give it away nowdays.
ga.prime
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That's no different than them buying it from ancestry.com or the like which is what you suggested could be going on. If one's worth a class action suit, so is the other.sstterry said:
ga.prime said:
Nope, with the ancestry sites you have agreed by contract that you consent and that the results belong to them to do with as they please. The two are nothing alike at all.
I should add here that with the advent of the Affordable Care Act, that it is technically illegal for "Health" Insurers to use DNA Evidence to deny coverage. But with all other insurance and situations, using DNA data is fair game.
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jltrent
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I have probably done messed up. A couple years ago 23 and me was running a special on those Health DNA testing and ancestery result kits. Well my daughter bought me one for Christmas as these kids think these kits are cool. Well it laid around the house almost a year and finally she talked me into spitting in the cup.
Results came back probably better than I expected as a couple health things in the future may pop up, but it did rule out some. I had kin folks I never dreamed of. I am sure my DNA is already sold to any buyers if any would want it.
A couple things kinda I questioned in the results as it said I had a gene to were I would be somewhat under weight and would lose very little hair. Both of those are wrong, but pretty scary as everything else was dead on right.
https://www.23andme.com/
Results came back probably better than I expected as a couple health things in the future may pop up, but it did rule out some. I had kin folks I never dreamed of. I am sure my DNA is already sold to any buyers if any would want it.
A couple things kinda I questioned in the results as it said I had a gene to were I would be somewhat under weight and would lose very little hair. Both of those are wrong, but pretty scary as everything else was dead on right.
https://www.23andme.com/
Redgully
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Yeah my folks did the ancestry dna test, was pretty accurate to what we know. What was interesting was my dads grand father was an abandoned baby and we always thought was Slave of some sort but he comes back as eastern European. I call him a russian now.
ga.prime
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sstterry said:
I say yes, you say no. Do you go around all day reading fine print?
ga.prime said:
Since I am a lawyer, most of the time yes.
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jltrent
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sstterry said:
I love watching forensic files etc. and here is an example and there are many more so far solved from the ancestry websites from the DNA submitted of which they own and the DNA can be used to their wish.
https://www.mcall.com/news/nation-world/mc-nws-golden-gate-killer-dna-website-20180427-story.html
You and my wife would get along great!jltrent said:
ga.prime
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Yeah, you need to convince all your distant relatives not to join any ancestry websites or they're going to get you like they did the Golden Gate killer.
Aaron
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jltrent said:
If they have DNA on a few of your 3rd/4th/5th generation cousins they can already narrow down what yours consists of. That's how they solve murder cold cases nowadays.
