

Could you tell me more on why having the DNA of a person is a “privacy endgame”? I don’t have much knowledge on DNA sampling and applications like in 23andMe, but isn’t it ultimately used for identification? Government IDs like SSN seem to already hold all information about you and your relation with others. Besides if they are so keen on collecting your DNA, they could just collect it without your knowledge from the places you stay or work at or anywhere in between.
I recall reading about a murder case where the blood of the killer was preserved back when DNA sampling technology was nonexistent and the court knew the identity of the killer but couldn’t prove it. A decade later the same blood sample was tested when DNA fingerprint became viable and matched with the killer, proving him guilty.
I can understand your reasoning now. Knowing some trace of my DNA could be preserved for years or decades just to profile me on a molecular level seems sufficiently dystopian. Thanks for letting me know