[deadmetheny]

>Therefore, by definition, you can either find a way to cope within that surveillance state, or you can move to somewhere so remote and hidden that you can't be caught doing what they don't like.

The problem with this is that by submitting your DNA, you're not handwaving away your own privacy - you're also making the decision for your relatives as well to handwave away their privacy.

>In our lifetimes, I'm not seeing a way for us to dismantle the forces that are pushing for such a big surveillance state.

"It's hard so why even bother trying". Yeah, fuck this milquetoast line of thought, to be frank. The cost of liberty is eternal vigilance. Don't engage in the sort of activity that lays the groundwork for totalitarian surveillance.

[quaquaqua1]

No, the only problem is that the government has access to the records, not that I gave my data to some private company.

It's like saying we shouldn't use cell phones and GPS because if our phones somehow interact with each other, your location data is given to my phone, and then my phone is less secure than yours and leaks both of our info to the government.

The only fault occurring here is the government's decision to gain access to and use this data