[rckoepke]

Seems like something that will happen eventually in the next decade or three. I can imagine a business model where instead of collecting a vial of saliva, a company rents you a fully automated desktop DNA sequencer. The data can live on your computer and be compared to new SNP's as they are found. It's a long way off, and I understand full sequencing is significantly more difficult than SNP identification, but the tech seems possible, even probably. The business model seems less probable. People just don't care that much about their data.

Also, it doesn't matter due to network effects. In the GEDmatch case, the serial killer had never had his DNA sequenced - just his relatives. DNA privacy is already gone even if you opt-out of everything. You might as well get some personal benefit out of it. Or maybe this is a perverse opposite of vaccination. If enough people get vaccinated, you get herd immunity. If enough people stop sending data to DNA companies, you get herd privacy. Once enough people in one generation send in for DNA tests, even if everyone stopped, wouldn't future generations still be relatively targetable? I mean I'd imagine you could find me by comparing to my grandparents DNA.