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They do.
Between agreements with most of those companies and their collecting of DNA when someone is arrested and charged with certain level crimes, they 100% have a database.
Some DNA companies automatically share with the government, some will do so if they just request it, and they are all obligated to comply with search warrants/request set abide by the laws to request said data. Anything not in their database they can get access to almost immediately.
So in essence they do have all that data BUT
it’s not just the government directly people should worry about, companies like Ancestry and 23andMe share your data with other companies, such as P&G Beauty, Pepto-Bismol, The University of Chicago, and GlaxoSmithKline automatically.
Almost everyone of those companies has been hacked at some point as well and huge files of genetic data are available for sale on the dark web, and China is actively working to collect as much genetic data on United States citizens as they can.
Comment by StaleCanole at 07/12/2024 at 17:05 UTC
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They simply dont. Ancestry actively does not cooperate with law enforcement as a policy. GED match does, sure.
Ancestry requires a specific warrant for a specific individual - not a relative or a broad search. Their terms are very clear and so is their track record. They also do not keep your dna after you request that it’s deleted.
The industry is fragmented and too little regulated. But it’s incorrect that the government has ready access to all dna tests however they want to use it. When you see that the govt dod a dna search of relatives, those are of very specific databases with very specific rules.