Would you spend $2 billion to solve every cold case murder in the USA?

Photo above - James Watson and Francis Crick won a Nobel Prize in 1953, and again in 1962, for their work identifying DNA as the key factor in evolution and reproduction.

23 and Me is one of the private sector DNA testing lab/repositories. And it's for sale, because it's bankrupt. The stock value has dropped 97 PERCENT over the past year. Why is it circling the drain? Because of privacy breaches. The same ones that put American hospitals, electric grid, banks, air traffic control, water supply, and the Pentagon at risk.

The difference is, when a government website gets “intruded”, they don’t have to pay a fine in court. 23 and Me DOES have to pay this kind of penalty. So it's broke. Being a government agency is sweet, no? See link below.

Personally, I don’t want to see 23 and Me become a wholly owned subsidiary of a Chinese organization like Temu, TikTok, or the Revolutionary Army of the Peoples Republic of China. I can’t predict what China would do with our entire nation’s DNA, but I’m sure they already have secret plans. My solution is simple: The US government should purchase – and nationalize – 23 and Me. In the interest of national security. The company's present market value is $1.7 billion. Let’s round that up and complete the transaction for $2 billion okay?

What about the “solve every murder angle”? If we have all the marbles – the 100 million+ DNA samples in their database – you can use AI on DNA of the brothers, sisters, cousins, children already in the system to find murderers who left their DNA at the scene of the crime. And arrest them if they’re still walking free among us. Or close the cases if they’re already in prison, or dead.

This may or may not bring closure to the victims’ relatives. But at the very least, we could reassign most of those cold case detectives to CURRENT crimes, and start making a dent in those, too.

Okay privacy advocates, I see your raised hand. “Isn’t 23 and Me data like banking information, and needs to remain private, to protect the customers?” Exactly. And just like banking info, the government has complete access to it, 24/7. If Uncle Sam buys and nationalizes 23 and Me, we will be able to leverage all those millions of records to quickly (more or less) solve all those past – and future – crimes.

This could be the best $2 billion we ever spent. At least it will be a million times smarter than President Obama’s 2016 stunt – where he rebuilt Cuba’s national Beisbol park, for a single exhibition game against the Tampa Bay Rays.

I’m just sayin’ . . .

Millions of People's DNA in Doubt as 23andMe Faces Bankruptcy : ScienceAlert