Spjn-Off: Ancestry DNA Matches, what are you?

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43% Scottish
29% Irish
12% Norwegian
11% English
3% Wales
2% Germanic Europe

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Elizabeth Warren is still whiter than you.

I haven't looked at Ancestry lately so the admixture may have changed a little bit but the last time I looked it was this:

England, Wales & Northwestern Europe- 49%
Germanic Europe- 45%
Norway- 6%

Supposedly I’m descended directly from William the Bastard, and I’m Scot Irish. I’m kind of tempted to do an ancestry thing, but I don’t feel comfortable sharing my DNA with a company and apparently my grandfather really got around behind my grandmother’s back and my Dad doesn’t want some theoretical half sibling knocking on his door. My cousin’s aunt did a DNA test, found out she has a long lost half brother, and now that half brother is going after the estate that he feels he has a right to.

Thems white Supremacy genes.

What is the problem if you are a law abiding citizen, and plan on staying that way? If you were in the military since 1998-99, you are in it, no choice in the matter.

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Congratulations on putting your DNA in a federal database.

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I don't understand how people can be stupid enough to do this

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What is the problem if you are a law abiding citizen, and plan on staying that way?

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Do you feel the same way about police searches of your home? If you didn't do anything wrong, you've nothing to hide, right?

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My cousin’s aunt did a DNA test, found out she has a long lost half brother, and now that half brother is going after the estate that he feels he has a right to.

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Their surname isn’t Newman or Abbott is it?

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Now, if you kidnapped, raped and murdered your next door neighbor 23 1/2 years ago, you might want to avoid doing an Ancestry kit.

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Hahaha this cracked me up.

Might wanna tell your relatives not to get one either. Maybe that's Hank's plan here...

This is another case where you’re not really the customer you’re the product:

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While the company doesn’t disclose the specifics of its data sharing agreements, they have always been central to 23andMe’s strategy. “The long game here is not to make money selling kits, although the kits are essential to get the base level data,” Patrick Chung, a 23andMe board member, told Fast Company last year. “Once you have the data, [the company] does actually become the Google of personalized health care.”

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Now just put an Alexa in your home, post pictures to FB and your job history to LinkedIn and you’ll have effectively surrendered your privacy.