Very recently, a (currently anonymous) 15-year-old boy, who had been conceived by way of in vitro fertilization, tracked down his otherwise anonymous sperm donor dad.
The clever teen just scraped a few cells off the inside of his cheek and mailed them into a commercial genetic database along with a fee of about $296 in order to see if his Y chromosomes matched anybody else in the system. After hearing from two other men whose chromosomes strongly matched his own, he paid another online service for the names of every person born on the same day and in the same hospital as his donor (the boy's mother had obtained the date and place of birth from the sperm bank). One last name corresponded with the last name of one of the other men in the database, and within less than two weeks, the boy contacted his sperm donor. This story would almost be touching if it weren't actually kind of creepy. It essentially boils down to the scary fact that any person with enough cash can get a hold of virtually any personal information that an individual may want to keep secret.
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