Have you ever tried Ancestry DNA? If so, what were YOUR results?

[shack]

No you're not only giving them your DNA. You're minimally giving them your e-mail, first name, last name, credit card info and I assume home address. That is all someone needs to do damage because it's all in the same database. Farming fingerprints and trying to match them to banking information would be a ridiculous waste of resources and no hacker would do that.

Ancestry uses your DNA sample to collect information about your family history in a single profile. That profile now becomes a one-stop shop to steal lots of information about you.

What a buzz kill.

 

[basketcase]

...I think that they can determine your fingerprint pattern from your DNA ....

Though there is some basic genetic components of fingerprints, the patterns are not based purely on DNA as can be seen by identical twins having different fingerprints.

 

[shack]

Though there is some basic genetic components of fingerprints, the patterns are not based purely on DNA as can be seen by identical twins having different fingerprints.

More buzz kill. :sad::sad:

I think that I'd better go back to the politics section and mock butler and jcpro more.

 

[Aardvark154]

Agreed. Now your DNA is in a database somewhere for all time. Who knows? Maybe this is all a front for some government body. Maybe this company will get bought out by Facebook, Google or the Chinese and your DNA will be part of your profile.

Somehow I don't think Kadie Lux is interested in perhaps shielding some distant relative who turns out to be a cold case murder suspect.

Governments (at least in democracies) do listen to the public and there are laws regarding all of this.

 

[MissCroft]

My results were overwhelmingly British and Northern European with a little Italian and Greek. No big surprises.

 

[explorerzip]

What a buzz kill.

Would you accept this flippant response from a company that leaked your personal info? I think not. BTW, these DNA companies have been hacked before and it will happen again.

Since you obviously haven't had to deal with this scenario, let me tell you that it is very difficult and time consuming to reconstruct your identity documents. Had to do that with my elderly father in law that lost his passport and health card. Had to track down his original immigration documents, etc.

 

[explorerzip]

My results were overwhelmingly British and Northern European with a little Italian and Greek. No big surprises.

That makes me wonder what the value of paying for such a service.

 

[whiteshaft]

Fact of the matter is that security is not given enough attention these days. What should concern people is that they are allowing a third-party to compile a whole lot of personal information about them and their family. What I don't get is the need to know this information. So now I know that I'm X% of each nationality. So now what? I think basketcase put it best, how about talking with family members to get this info?

I hear ya! This whole thing sounds too scary to go through even though the idea had initially crossed my mind at one point!

 

[basketcase]

That makes me wonder what the value of paying for such a service.

In my case it was a Christmas gift. I've always known that they can only track ancestry for the genes that got passed down to you. It is possible for the test to not even show the ancestry of your grandparents if it just so happens that those genetic markers were among the 50% (or 25%) that did not get passed down to you. And those commercials where they fond out they are 11% something and suddenly change their identity are ridiculous.

I did think the 23andme health aspect was interesting until I read up about it and found that most of it was probabilities of less significant things (like the probability of you having brown hair - there may be other ways to determine that :rockon.

 

[shack]

Would you accept this flippant response from a company that leaked your personal info? I think not. BTW, these DNA companies have been hacked before and it will happen again.

Since you obviously haven't had to deal with this scenario, let me tell you that it is very difficult and time consuming to reconstruct your identity documents. Had to do that with my elderly father in law that lost his passport and health card. Had to track down his original immigration documents, etc.

I believe that you are taking my light-hearted post way more seriously than intended.

 

[explorerzip]

I believe that you are taking my light-hearted post way more seriously than intended.

And you are making light of a very real problem that has existed and will continue to exist for years to come.

 

[Darts]

Over the years, I developed a talent for being able to tell a woman's (only works with women) ancestry by carefully examining her vulva. I am correct within 5% 19 times out of 20. :applouse:

 

[harryass]

yip, now I know where I got my charm and good looks from. Snort.

 

[shack]

And you are making light of a very real problem that has existed and will continue to exist for years to come.

Find another crusade.

 

[explorerzip]

Find another crusade.

I thought you were leaving to another thread?

 

[Darts]

wow I was about to do this but then this thread convinced me not to lol........

Those "23 and Me" TV commercials are so hilarious, especially the one about all the relatives you never knew you had (or wanted to have).

Being E.I. you could be related to Alexander the Great and/ or Ghengis Khan (Mongol guy) and/or some Muslim Arab and/or maybe a British General.

 

[shack]

I thought you were leaving to another thread?

There's another misplaced thought. You're on a roll.

 

[MissCroft]

In my case it was a Christmas gift.

Mine was also a Christmas gift so I never gave my credit card info or much other info. Basically name and e-mail address.

 

[radagast]

49% amiable zany, 26% golden retriever, 9% pseudo intellectual, 5% glutton for punishment, 5% clueless idiot, 5% titanium, and 1% salmon.

Dad? Is that you?

 

[kherg007]

Dad? Is that you?

Son!!! So good to see you out!! How was Riker's? I heard they had a mean pepper steak there...and sorry about Mum. She got the rabies and we had to put her down...shes buried out behind the old swing set..