Almost every US (and Russian) resident has a full set of personal data (full name, address, phone number, social security number, gender, age, income level, even political preferences) in the public domain. For example, 111 GB of internal information about tens of thousands of clients of the American National Credit Federation (NCF) in Tampa, Florida, was discovered in the public domain in Amazon S3 data storage. I think that in other countries with more or less developed e-government, banking and insurance systems, and telecom, everything is about the same (for example, the personal data of every tenth resident of Switzerland has been compromised, and 46.2 million mobile phone numbers of Malaysian users have fallen into the hands of criminals).
In fact, all that remains is to overlay this iran mobile database on a DNA database, and we will receive a truly absolutely complete and unique profile of each resident of a particular country, and perhaps the entire world. By the way, leaks from companies that collect and store various genealogical information based on DNA have also occurred. In particular, a data leak affected the accounts of 300,000 users of the RootsWeb system - the largest online genealogical community.
It is noteworthy that just a few days ago in California a serial rapist and murderer who committed crimes between 1976 and 1986 was caught. He was caught precisely thanks to DNA analysis.
Intelligence agencies (the Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office and the FBI) took a DNA sample from the 1980 crime scene and uploaded it to a genealogy service database. It is possible (and even likely) that more than one site was used, but the criminal was found in the database of a specific service, GEDmatch. Representatives of similar services Ancestry.com (they lost the login and password database) and 23andMe immediately stated that their services were not involved in this case, but it is obvious that if they were used, it was clearly "in the dark."
Take care of your DNA from a young age
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