With the reduction in costs of genotyping technology, genetic genealogy has become accessible to more people. Various websites such as Ancestry.com offer genetic genealogy services. Users of these services are mailed an envelope with a DNA collection kit, in which users deposit their saliva. The users then mail their kits back to the service and […]
How to Identify Almost Anyone in a Consumer Gene Database
New techniques that dig more deeply into genetic databases may soon make the anonymity of their customers’ DNA impossible to safeguard
Chances DNA can be used to find your family? Sixty percent and rising
If you're of European descent, there's a good chance that you can be found.
A Researcher Needed Three Hours to Identify Me From My DNA
My case highlights the threat to privacy from genetic databases.
Your Relative's DNA Could Turn You Into a Suspect
Using DNA for criminal investigations is great—until it turns an innocent person into a suspect.
Genealogy websites identify rape suspect who eluded police for 40 years
Match came after finding relatives' DNA on commercial service, news reports say.
Microbiomes raise privacy concerns
DNA from microbes living on the human body can be used to identify individuals.
23andMe Is Terrifying but Not for the Reasons the FDA Thinks
This genetic testing company’s real goal is to hoard your personal data
A Major Drug Company Now Has Access to 23andMe’s Genetic Data. Should You Be Concerned?
Should consumers be concerned?
Empowering Industry to Combat Online Child Sexual Abuse with Expanded PhotoDNA Licensing
The Tech Coalition has expanded its sublicensing agreement with Microsoft to offer access to the PhotoDNA technology in combating child sexual abuse material online.
IndieWeb - Open Collective
We are on a mission to help individuals own their online identity and data.
Privacy.com uses identity verification service Persona, which will keep biometric information for "up to" 3 years
I think it’s time to stop recommending it
Walrus (@walrus.northsky.social)
Whats your motive in making data like nationality and approximate date of birth public? It seems like users have/had the option to not have their full name made public, do users have the option to hide their nationality or approximate date of birth as well? If not, then why?
Reinventing the wheel: milk, microbes, and the fight for real cheese
"Reinventing the Wheel is equal parts popular science, history, and muckraking. Over the past hundred and fifty years, dairy farming and cheesemaking have been transformed, and this book explores what has been lost along the way. Today, using cutting-edge technologies like high-throughput DNA sequencing, scientists are beginning to understand the techniques of our great-grandparents. The authors describe how geneticists are helping conservationists rescue rare dairy cow breeds on the brink of extinction, microbiologists are teaching cheesemakers to nurture the naturally occurring microbes in their raw milk rather than destroying them, and communities of cheesemakers are producing "real" cheeses that reunite farming and flavor, rewarding diversity and sustainability at every level."--Provided by publisher.
A Facebook patent would use your family photos to target ads
The patent describes analyzing photos to build family profiles.
New Report: Data Defense: Evaluating People-Search Site Removal Services - Innovation at Consumer Reports
CR joined forces with Tall Poppy to evaluate seven different people-search removal services. The full report reveals our findings.
AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA
We’re introducing AlphaGenome Atlas, a database predicting the effects of every possible single nucleotide variant in the human genome.
