Millions of semi-conscious consumers, most of whom were probably outraged and appalled by recent privacy scandal outbreaks involving companies like Facebook and Equifax, have been casually shipping away the most precious keys to their genetic code and helping ancestry.comcompile the worlds largest DNA database.
More than 5 million people have already "spit into tubes" and mailed it into ancestry.com's database, according a recent reportby the Tampa Bay Times.These 5 million people were the basis of a brand new investigative reportpublished by the Tampa Bay Times, which detailed how ancestry.com, marketing itself as a family friendly and wholesome way to discover ones ethnicity, is actually possibly setting itself up for the largest and most complex security breach of all time.
That’s because ancestry.comis compiling a database, not just of personal information like your Social Security number or date of birth, but also of your DNA. As the report notes, your DNA is arguably the most complex and sensitive form of identification that you can have as a human being.