<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">My attitude is that my privacy is not important compared to helping science. (which you obviously already know about me, as I have mentioned weed, guns etc. in my posts). Who is going to knock on my door and for what?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I not only did the test but I fill out every questionnaire they send me as to my health, my parents' health and so on. The more they can find correlations between genes and health the better I say.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 1:08 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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On 03/04/2020 18:22, spike wrote:<br>
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<pre>I recommend that people do one of those DNA tests. If you are concerned
with privacy, I can explain how to do those where the identity of the DNA
cannot be determined.</pre>
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Spike, how can that possibly work?<br>
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We can't edit our DNA sample so as to only provide a set of
sequences, and not the rest.<br>
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And your DNA <i>is</i> your identity, how can it not be?<br>
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Anyone who claims that they can 'anonymise' your DNA sample is
probably lying, or even worse, doesn't understand what they are
saying.<br>
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The attachment of conventional identifiers like name, address, age,
etc., is trivial compared to the DNA itself, which is the best
identifier there could ever be.<br>
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There are way better biologists than me on this list. Can any of
them demonstrate that I'm wrong here?<br>
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Ben Zaiboc</pre>
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