Edit: I used to help Google fund researchers like Joe Derisi and others who develop technology to do this, and some of the people I worked with in my academic career are quite good at identifying serial killers from 30 year old DNA. If you're downvoting because you think I'm making this up, you're wrong. If you're downvoting because you don't think large-scale individual detection using genetic sampling of the environment is possible, you're wrong. If you're downvoting because you think you couldn't do a whole genome sequence of an individual using a sample collected in the wild, you're wrong. If you're downvoting because you think this is a terrible idea (morally, ethically), that's fine but I didn't say anything about my own moral or ethical beliefs about this.
It's simply factually correct to say that large-scale individual sample collection (at order tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of individuals in a country the size of the US) is possible. All the technology is there to do this.
> Its "research programme information sheet", last updated on October 21, says the company retains data including "biological samples" and "the DNA obtained from such samples", as well as "genetic information derived from processing your DNA sample ... using various technologies such as genotyping and whole or partial genome sequencing".
The policy also says Cignpost may share customers’ DNA samples and other personal information with "collaborators" working with them or independently, including universities and private companies, and that it "may receive compensation" in return.
[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/11/14/covid-test-firm-...
> L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva .. was briefed by the FBI about “the serious risks associated with allowing Fulgent to conduct COVID-19 testing,” ... the FBI advised him that information is likely to be shared with China, and that the FBI told him DNA data obtained is “not guaranteed to be safe and secure from foreign governments.”
But also all the unintentional donations: Every pubic hair you lost on the toilet seat, every tampon you disposed, every bandage you ripped off and threw away, every mattress you slept on, chewing gum you've spit out, every ejaculation, every ... you get the idea.
That's why you need laws to regulate this.
I'm joking, I don't think you did anything wrong but I'd hate it if a ridiculous argument such as this example gained any traction :
Example : The government / aliens / whoever released the virus so we willingly gave them our DNA to sequence and match with our assigned ID so they can do XYZ in case the implant in the vaccine doesn't work or if we are smart enough not to get vaccinated.
Scary stuff.
At the base of it, if the gov. of the country one lives in is the enemy, it can’t be a matter of refusing vaccines here and there, that’s not the scale they should be thinking about.
