You can use Big Brother to help find your birth family.

Every year, more Chinese adoptees send off DNA kits, upload photographs, or submit their DNA to the National Reunion Database. As databases grow and social networks interconnect, the chance of reunion grows. Chinese police now use not only DNA analysis but also face recognition to help families reunite.

oh no

[–] invo_rt@hexbear.net 36 points 3 months ago

As a USian child, I distinctly recall being in elementary school and having someone from the local police department come as a "fun" event and talk about public safety while also fingerprinting every kid (myself included) for "fun". We put each of our fingers into that transfer medium and pressed it onto cards. It's kind of like finger painting, really, if you don't think about it. This was done without parental consent as well.

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

wojak-nooo don't you see? We have to only let the government access our DNA databases and they have to be housed in Israel!! Nooo you can't make them accessible to the public so they know what's being tracked and maybe they can use it for fun stuff too!! It's different when people in China voluntarily enter their DNA into a database than when we either scam them with a "private" company or just force people to do it

[–] Runcible@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

don't you see? We have to only let the government access our DNA databases

Possibly better than what is/was actually happening. IIRC 23andme "owned" the genetic data from their customer and sold it off as part of a merger or bankruptcy or something?

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I thought they just sold the data to the government or something

[–] Runcible@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think they were sharing it with police without warrants but no, scanning headlines and grabbing a snippet from a random one (Fortune) gives me this "A U.S. bankruptcy judge ruled DNA-testing company 23andMe, which filed for bankruptcy Sunday, has the right to sell customers’ medical and ancestry data to potential bidders. Offers will be due on May 7, and a final hearing will be held in June."

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago

That reminds me of all those "cryogenic" facilities that thaw the bodies of their clients when they go bankrupt

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's digital data, copies can and were/are sold to multiple entities including governments and other companies. The US state and it's LEOs have it, and I don't have a source for this but I assume companies like Palantir in the panopticon game have it too

[–] deforestgump@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They are doing their best to paint China with the Cyberpunk 2077 brush and it ain't working!

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I've played Cyberpunk 2077 and Night City honestly compares pretty favorably to, say, modern day Los Angeles. The rent and medical care are pretty cheap and the public transit is very robust.

[–] WokePalpatine@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

If the studio had any courage they would have nickle-and-dimed the player for every single interaction. Constant surveillance that requires either bribing people or expensive hardware to bypass. Constantly hassled by privatized police force and gangs of the homeless who need to steal whatever they can to survive. Shit constantly breaking, both your own stuff and infrastructure.

[–] WokePalpatine@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's right. I'm asking for another Far Cry 2. Far Cry 2077.

[–] WokePalpatine@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

Far Cryberpunk

[–] shath@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

robit penor