Deniability
dan at geer.org
dan at geer.org
Thu Mar 24 00:13:20 CET 2011
> For example, I do genealogy as a hobby, and figuring out how person A was re
> lated to person B 100 years ago would involve trips to the town in question
> , and poring over a hand-kept records book in the town hall. These days, t
> here are a number of websites that have brought that sort of information on
> line. The information from old town record book is essentially unchanged,
> but the ability to access it is dramatically easier. Such easy access enab
> les all sorts of cross-referencing and data mining across multiple database
> s that were (strictly speaking) possible a hundred years ago, but also extr
> emely unrealistic.
The "23andme.com" folks claim that their genetic screening
thing is liberating people by connecting them to relatives
that they did not know they had.
I, for one, have a lot of relatives that I don't want to know.
--dan
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