I will take every opportunity to warn people against these genetics testing “services.” They are huge data mines and prospecting firms, and if you are Indigenous, your submission may be their way around tribal moratoriums against these sorts of collections.
Plus, they don’t mean anything as far as Indigenous identity.
Oh wow, read this. Excerpt, emphasis mine:
“Buried in
the “Informed Consent” section, which is incorporated into the Terms of
Service, Ancestry.com warns customers, “it is possible that information
about you or a genetic relative could be revealed, such as that you or a
relative are carriers of a particular disease. That information could
be used by insurers to deny you insurance coverage, by law enforcement
agencies to identify you or your relatives, and in some places, the data
could be used by employers to deny employment.”This
is a massive red flag. The data “you or a genetic relative” give to
AncestryDNA could be used against “you or a genetic relative” by
employers, insurers, and law enforcement.For example, a young woman named Theresa Morelli applied for individual
disability insurance, consented to release of her medical records
through the Medical Information Bureau (a credit reporting agency for
medical history), and was approved for coverage. One month later, Ms.
Morelli’s coverage was cancelled and premiums refunded when the insurer
learned her father had Huntington’s disease, a genetic illness.“Oh tf wow
Ancestry.com is the woooorst. Don’t use them ever.
They also are owned by the LDS church, and get all their genealogy information for the genealogy work the members are pressured to do to make sure their extended family (and all of humankind) gets eternal saving ordinances. The church coerces people into providing free labor in genealogy research under the threat of losing your family in eternity if you don’t. They then take that free labor, aggregate it, and sell it for a profit through Ancestry.com.
So
like
Ancestry.com exploits the free labor of people to sell it, and also exploits your DNA test results to sell them, so that people can exploit you based on the results of those tests, and they make you pay for the privilege.
Don’t ever touch that fucking company.
Ancestry.com takes DNA ownership rights from customers and their relatives
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