re: “DNA and me” strikes again.

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Insurers would love to screen out people with genetic markers for expensive diseases. Ditto company HR departments.

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Yep.

And even if we eventually get single payer, it's still a problem. The government will want to forcibly sterilize people who might pass on risky genes (and according to Nancy Depreo, the Mississippi ambassador for rare diseases, everyone has at least five bad pieces of DNA - most rare diseases are caused by getting a bad roll of the dice from both parents).

That's before you even get into potential political abuse, ie finding genetically influenced diseases that are correlated with groups of people the government dislikes.

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thinking "I don't have anything to hide, I'm not a criminal," It's a short step to this being shared with insurance companies and prospective employers. Insurers would love to screen out people with genetic markers for expensive diseases. Ditto company HR departments. Think of the headaches they could save by eliminating job applicants with a susceptibility to alcoholism.

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That would probably fall under some sort of discrimination does it not?

So besides this conspiracy theory, what else is law enforcement going to do with your DNA of someone they don’t care about?