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What I want to know and be disclosed is a) if they have my DNA fingerprint and if b) they or a third-party is using the data to filter and direct certain information (or eliminate certain information from coming) at me - e.g. ads or otherwise. If you know I have a higher risk of X type of cancer, and you know I know - are you going to pull the fear card to sell me something? What about relating to diabetes or intelligence or ADD or depression or how I'm likely to vote or or or or or ... The amount of manipulation and control that can result from this - realized as power - is immense, the nuanced value of the information gives insight never before possible on a person. Could this lead to highly accurate priming patterns to lead a person to a certain decision - consciously impossible to realize? This could be used for very bad purposes, and usually it's people with profit or looking to gain more profit and control - who will put the most money towards such purposes, meaning the highest bidder for targeted ads - meaning for-profit businesses, Google et al, will be okay with it, and where government needs to regulate and actively monitor - though I'm not sure you can detect such patterns, meaning the only real option is ability to opt-out. Services like DuckDuckGo are feeling more important as time goes by - though how shielded are we if Google becomes the main internet provider - and where government / society can't even compete, or at a higher cost as Google or others will be have more value they can extract to compete.. ugh.