It is not a matter of protecting someone who has broken the law.... that was just to show it is being used that way even though they didn't tell you they were going to use your info that way.
I was referring to the original quoted article... alot of people who had their lives turned upside down.
For What? It was horrific! Are they better off with the info... Are they happier? Did it improve their lives? Reread the article...
What if you found out the people who raised you weren't your actual parents.
How would you feel about it? How would THEY feel?
Your identity is what YOU have made of your life... your place in the world NOW.
You can't change the past.... what is there to gain?
Exactly my point....
"They" didn't use the information that way. The police falsified an account to upload data from crime scenes to GEDMatch, a free place to upload one's DNA data from other testing sites. A site where privacy is not protected and open-access to matches is available to account holders and may be used in other ways. When I signed up for Gedmatch, I had to acknowledge that I understood that and agreed.
I read the article. All of it. In a manner, I've lived, am living, the article! The people who raised me weren't my actual parents. My life was turned "upside down" from the age of nine and again and again as I've learned more. I have recently learned that the man whom I have believed for the past 45 years to be my biological father, though I never met him because he died one month prior to my finding him, is not my biological father. I was rather fond of the idea of his having been my birthfather. I have had interaction with his stepson whom he raised. I've spent many hours pouring over his photos, building his family tree, etc. Still, I believe those in the article, and I, are/am better off with the information. Is my life improved? Yes. I am not living a lie. Knowledge is power and happiness isn't always based on what we think it is. I only have two regrets. That I didn't know sooner and that I still do not have all the answers.
My identity is not entirely what
I have made of my life. My "place in the world" has been built upon a foundation which is both genetical and sociological! No, I can't change the past but I can gain from, and build upon, the knowledge of it.
Forgive me if I am wrong, but I can't help but wonder if you are so passionate about this because there is a skeleton in your closet that you don't want to come to life.