• WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        “Oh drat, AviationEast is right! Alright everyone, pack it up we’re not doing this anymore.”.
        -FBI top brass

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      1 year ago

      I’m genuinely curious, why do you think that? Maybe I’m not familiar enough with genetics, but it doesn’t seem like a huge invasion of privacy.

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        Genetics ID not only yourself, but your entire family past present and future.

        It’s basically the single most largest invasion of privacy in existence.

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    … that’s probably unwise. Since we got it though, that’s a pretty huge data set that could probably assist in some useful research, if they wanted to anonymize it and give it to scientists. Or they could just keep it for themselves I suppose, until it reveals new uses.

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      On one hand, yeah, on the other, you want to discourage people from doing this stuff then saying “welllllll, as long as we’ve already got it…”

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    Would this help with identification of the remains found along the texas border? there are quite a few unidentified remains found and they are hypothesized to be from this group