Ancestry dot com giving DNA to cops

[mattp38]

there is no such thing as privacy anymore.

Very true! Sadly, many have the mentality of, "what does it matter if you have nothing to hide?" People don't seem to mind. Buy what I find funny is most would not give their email password, or debit card pin number to there very best friend, but those same people don't mind complete strangers knowing the most intimate details of their life.

 

[monkeyfish5000]

i feel it doesn't matter if you have nothing to hide or not. I just don't like the idea of strangers knowing mine, or anyone elses for that matter, personal info that they have no business knowing. we had a discussion at work yesterday about the nurse at work. apparently she has access to all of my medical records and from what ive told she randomly schedules other employees doctor visits and accompanies them to the dr visit. like why, I could understand if it was a work related injury but if its a personal visit then she doesn't need to be there

 

[mattp38]

i feel it doesn't matter if you have nothing to hide or not. I just don't like the idea of strangers knowing mine, or anyone elses for that matter, personal info that they have no business knowing. we had a discussion at work yesterday about the nurse at work. apparently she has access to all of my medical records and from what ive told she randomly schedules other employees doctor visits and accompanies them to the dr visit. like why, I could understand if it was a work related injury but if its a personal visit then she doesn't need to be there

That's very invasive! Do you work for the government? Never mind, they don't subjugate their own to such practices. Lol

 

[Pilgrim9283]

http://butthatsnoneofmybusiness.com...-customer-data-with-police-without-a-warrant/

 

[Clarke123]

The Patriot Act is up for renewal ... still without any criminal penalty for its abuse by federal officials!
Let your representatives know how you feel about that .. I did!

 

[woodstock]

I shouldn't have sent that stool sample then

 

[chucklenut]

I heard ancestery.com was being used by scumbags to get info on ramdom folks to file fake tax returns (since the irs is too ****ing stupid to properly check where money is going)

 

[brad sweet]

Have you ever seen the Jerry springer show they do the DNA SWAP FOR FREE as part of the show to determine ethnicity . Any time Dna is given willing the results go into Codus data base for criminal back round info and crime matching.

 

[fattboyzz]

Did he get a little leaf for his trouble ?

 

[JamesG]

Did he get a little leaf for his trouble ?

Doubt it. It was "justice" in action.

The moral of this story is that data is persistent, even after you've forgotten about it or the company that originally promised not the sell/share your data has gone out of buisiness/been bought. If you put any of your information in electronic form and on the Internet, you might as well put it on a billboard somewhere. At some point it WILL get stolen/sold/subpenaed. The main reason I have resisted getting a GA CC permit. I donot want me and my fingerprints in the "those people" database.