On 23andme there’s this social media thing, where you can connect to ‘relatives’ like second cousins and so on. I limited my access, only enough to see who used it. My name is just my initials, doesn’t show anything else really.

Enabling strongest privacy settings, and sharing as limited data as possible. If you do use it seems to be the best route. I still think potentially at some point they might actually get compromised and all users.

I’ll get 1 year free credit monitoring, and $10 bucks then. Most Americans are already hacked from the Public National Database thing. Social security numbers, emails, and rest of it.

Just remove the .in TLD, and stop people from India from using their site. Give people that are in India like a specific time period to transfer their domain elsewhere.

I want to point out there is something that most people aren’t aware of. FED Government uses it. It’s called a law called ECPA (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986).

There’s a rule that’s so outdated. It basically says if your emails are 180 days old. It treats it as if you ‘abandoned’ it. No 4th amendment right, I’m not sure about people elsewhere. They can just access these emails with a mere subpoena without a court order or judge approval.

So if you must use any email providers with servers within the US that’s not encrypted or US based such as Gmail or Yahoo. Enable Pop3 and download it locally, delete it from your main gmail account. This will be different if it’s an employer. For me, I don’t keep it for more than 180 days.

There was one court case. It didn’t go to SCOTUS. It’s Warshak v. United States. Anything under 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals jurisdiction is I believe supposedly protected, but who knows.

I learned about this a year ago. I thought people here might want to know about it in addition to this. I’m not a lawyer. I just wanted them to know about the 180 day rule.