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The YouTube video Is Pokimane Asian? I Take A DNA Test! by the YouTube channel Pokimane.
Here is the description for this video:
So many people ask me all the time about my race, ethnicity, or nationality; I decided to finally take a DNA test and check out my Ancestry! 😄 Time to see if i’m actually Asian or not 😳 Join me as I check the results! ❤Expand me❤
Is Pokimane Asian? I take a DNA test!
Pokimane #DNATest #23AndMe
Yesterday someone sent me a video by the YouTube channel The Young Turks called DNA Testing Company Caught Working With The FBI:
If this is true then Family Tree DNA lied to me and others, I had my genealogical autosomal DNA test done by Family Tree DNA specifically because they had the best privacy policy out of the big three genealogical DNA testing companies and I wanted to reduce the risk of something like this happening, and so I took a risk finally and I chose them over possibly better options because of their supposed better protections of our DNA / data.
If you are curious here were my results in a post called: John Jr’s Family Tree DNA Family Finder Genealogical DNA Test Results 😲.
Last year I heard about law enforcement using DNA data from one or more DNA testing companies, two of the other big three DNA testing companies claimed to not be involved, but I never heard anyone mention Family Tree DNA so I hoped that they were not involved in that; but if this is true then we were betrayed, and I am not happy about this at all.
If this is true then Family Tree DNA has lost me as a customer over this betrayal, I was cautious and worried about something like this possibly happening so that is why I waited so long before finally taking a risk and trying a DNA test, and I did some research before finally choosing the company with the best privacy policy only to have something like this happen to me.
Thank you The Young Turks for bringing this to our attention.
*Update*
Family Tree DNA released an oddly titled press release about this issue called PRESS RELEASE: CONNECTING FAMILIES AND SAVING LIVES.
If what they are saying is true then the situation is not as bad as reported, but I still have questions and concerns about this situation.
-John Jr
What Is It?
The BBC News YouTube video called Cheddar Man: DNA Shows Early Briton Had Dark Skin – BBC News.
Here is the description for this video:
Scientists finally put a face to Cheddar Man, Britain’s oldest complete skeleton from 10,000 years ago.
Today, BBC News had an interesting news article and video about new estimates of how Cheddar Man looked based on scientific analysis of his genome.
Here is the BBC News article called Cheddar Man: DNA Shows Early Briton Had Dark Skin:
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