Hasbeen said- I would love to go back to the time when every door & window could be left open when people went out.

Answer- If there were less people in Australia in a more homogeneous society where everyone understands everyone else we could probably leave the doors open. In such a society everyone knows when someone is doing something tricky.

Phil,

There have been stories about the FBI catching rapists etc based on DNA match with data bases from these genetic testing companies for a while, and long before the story above.

Remember the FBI can subpoena this info anytime, and so can our government.

True Canem Malum, but seeing we have filled our country with a pile of useless human garbage, we are never going to get back to a smaller population, or a homogenous one either.

I will accept a loss of my privacy, never a major interest to me anyway, to make the community we now have more law abiding.

This combined with automatic deportation of any migrant for any offence worse than jay walking, & we might get some semblance of the community we once had.

Shadow Minister What you are saying is true but irrelevant here.

No one but a criminal would like to see Australia full of criminals LE could not catch.

The point of posting this was to inform that a common Christmas present being the home testing kits, could have privacy issues compromised.

Now the big problem for young people is DNA can be used by insurance companies to reject claims or refuse to insure people, employers could use it to hire or not hire people depending on what future discoveries may show.

Do you know what we will be able to learn from a simple DNA sample in the future no you don't, neither do I but the young generation may not like it companies will, it could end up determining their whole future.

Shadow Minister Another possibility.

For hypothetical purpose I will say you are 58 YO, you have an accident the ambulance comes calls in that they will need air ambulance to get you to a specialized hospital for emergency surgery by a team of trauma surgeons, the person arranging this asks what is the patients name and DOB, types it into the computer. Up come your details age etc also DNA information and a little red flag for say congenital heart disease or some other terminal or hereditary illness, arrived at from your DNA it also indicates that your life expectancy is 61 years. What sort of care do you think you are going to get now?
Assuming that you are not a millionaire.

Phil,

Firstly only law enforcement officials can subpoena information,

secondly, congenital defects are generally not hereditary.

thirdly, doctors tend to try to do the best for their patients, and that information would prove helpful.