Ancestry DNA – A Cool Party Trick or Privacy Violation?

(c) 2016

I am in great fear of all the ads Ancestry.com is placing you get folks to willingly give up their DNA just to see their ethnic origins. It’s the ultimate privacy violation yet thousands are flocking to do it like lambs to the slaughter.

I have to ask the basic but obvious question: 

• If you won’t willy nilly give out your Social Security Number or your credit card number, then why would you give someone a sample of your DNA - the most personal, private part of yourself? 

 
What real guarantee of privacy do you have? Everything gets hacked, even the Pentagon! 

Handing over your DNA for no good cause makes it easier for you to be found by authorities and insurance companies are always looking for a reason to exclude the insured from getting their claims paid.  As science marches on, you know they will find a way to charge extra if your DNA has a gene for some disease. Or not cover you at all because of a congenital condition.

 Why just hand it over for what is a cosmetic purpose? After all, who really cares if you’re Irish or Italian or something else? When all is said and done, you are you.  If you aren’t sure who you are, you need psychotherapy or a life coach, not a DNA test.

More importantly, Ancestry.com LLC was started by the Mormons as a recruiting tool regardless of what the PR says. If you are not familiar with their brand of religion and especially if you are not religious at all, their goal is to get everyone inducted into Mormonism in the afterlife - whether you want to be or not. They get your name, family tree, and now your DNA.

I say “NO”. Be afraid. Do not do it.

Source: The Power Of DNA And The Potential For Misuse

http://wideshut.co.uk/the-power-of-dna-and-the-potential-for-misuse/

Read Why Social Security Is NOT an Entitlement

I had my fill of pundits saying things that are not only incorrect but downright

irresponsible. So, I wrote to the Editor of the Washington Examiner.

 

Read on...then tell Mr. Core what you think....

(c) Chris Core

 

Social Security is not an entitlement
Re: "Core Values," March 27

I am not always sure if I should laugh or pull out what's left of my hair when a member of the media writes something ludicrous such as when Chris Core accuses those complaining about Social Security cuts of having a sense of "entitlement."

Mr. Core, I paid over $100,000 of my hard-earned salary into Social Security during the last 30 years. Expecting to see it on the other end is not entitlement, it's quid pro quo.

The bigger problem is that I likely won't see any of it because of the failures of Wall Street and the Republican-led government.

My response mimics Senate Insurance's ad: "Kiss my bumper!"

Doreen Turczyn-Toles
Gaithersburg