Researchers are today, right now, this very second downloading genetic information from those databases and using it to understand and develop cures for diseases. The vast libraries of information, coupled with health and demographic data, are changing the way science is done.
There is also a chance, however small, that a genealogical genetic match to me will lead to one of my trashy drug-addicted relatives going to jail for rape.
>literally being falsely imprisoned or executed is an actual, real world risk, that people have actually experienced
The article you yourself linked to, which I read every word of, contains no examples of people "literally being falsely imprisoned or executed".
Eyewitness testimony can lead to false imprisonment-- is the solution to ban eyewitness testimony?
Finding a suspect's fingerprint at a scene can lead to false imprisonment-- is the solution to ban fingerprints?
DNA evidence is only a single link in a long chain and has all of the benefits and drawbacks of fingerprints, eyewitness testimony, and all other forms of evidence. It is no different, despite what crime shows might have you think.
Every time you're feeling stressed out about the jackbooted gubmint thugz locking you up if they find your DNA somewhere just repeat to yourself "it's the exact same thing as them finding a fingerprint or CCTV still, just newer".
"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury we found the suspect's fingerprints and DNA at the scene, have a CCTV image of him buying the hammer that has his fingerprints and DNA on it, and have three eyewitnesses who saw him enter the scene of the crime right before the murder"
"Throw it all out, it's a conspiracy, a violation of the defendant's rights. That's all faulty evidence fraught with peril and allowing it will destroy democracy and freedom as we know it."
> Every time you're feeling stressed out about the jackbooted gubmint thugz
You sure are putting a whole lot of words in my mouth. I’m going to assume you are no longer engaging in good faith. Enjoy your impending future data leak.
I have already actually and literally given it away. You yourself can download it.
And I don't need to lie about what an article contains to try and scare people.
Like you did.
You stopped acting in good faith the moment you lied.
You lied about the content of the link you posted, probably thinking that I wouldn't read it. But I did read it, the link YOU YOURSELF posted, and I discovered you lying about what it contained.
Because you are a liar.
And I respond to liars with ridicule.
edit: note to the civility police-- none of the above statements are personal attacks, they are statements of fact based on evidence posted directly by the person being responded to of his or her own free will, available for public observation on a website designed to allow for responses. The person I am responding to is irrefutably and unquestionably a liar who lied about the content of a link he or she posted. It was not a mistake, omission, misinterpretation, or anything else-- it was a lie.
do you understand that sensationalizing and snarkifying your comments so intensely doesn’t actually make you sound more convincingly rational and judicious?
There is also a chance, however small, that a genealogical genetic match to me will lead to one of my trashy drug-addicted relatives going to jail for rape.
>literally being falsely imprisoned or executed is an actual, real world risk, that people have actually experienced
The article you yourself linked to, which I read every word of, contains no examples of people "literally being falsely imprisoned or executed".
Eyewitness testimony can lead to false imprisonment-- is the solution to ban eyewitness testimony?
Finding a suspect's fingerprint at a scene can lead to false imprisonment-- is the solution to ban fingerprints?
DNA evidence is only a single link in a long chain and has all of the benefits and drawbacks of fingerprints, eyewitness testimony, and all other forms of evidence. It is no different, despite what crime shows might have you think.
Every time you're feeling stressed out about the jackbooted gubmint thugz locking you up if they find your DNA somewhere just repeat to yourself "it's the exact same thing as them finding a fingerprint or CCTV still, just newer".
"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury we found the suspect's fingerprints and DNA at the scene, have a CCTV image of him buying the hammer that has his fingerprints and DNA on it, and have three eyewitnesses who saw him enter the scene of the crime right before the murder"
"Throw it all out, it's a conspiracy, a violation of the defendant's rights. That's all faulty evidence fraught with peril and allowing it will destroy democracy and freedom as we know it."