alt Hacker NewsPeople talk a lot about metadata collection but not about DNA collection.
It is imperative for any intelligence service to know if any politically exposed person has a child, especially if it spawns from an affair. Logically, we have to assume that all laboratories processing human blood are also doing some sort of DNA genealogy.
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rjsw • today at 5:02 PM
Is your idea that NeXT machines had more sharp edges than other computers so would make it easier to collect blood?
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WillAdams • today at 5:19 PM
Twist on that was the fake immunization campaigns run in Pakistan so as to find relatives of Osama Bin Laden.
Or, just check Strom Thurmond's list of children on Wikipedia.
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Last time I went to donate blood, I read all the fine print they asked me to sign, and I was giving them the right to sequence my DNA (!)
The tech taking my blood had no idea; nobody else had ever read it.
I did complain and ask the blood donation org to make sequencing opt-in and my message was "passed on to leadership" but with no followup from "leadership."