Have you used ancestry.com? Is it safe?

My girlfriend got me an ancestry. com kit for my birthday. I talked about how I knew little of my family and expressed once how cool it’d be to do one of those ancestry. com things.

However, I had second thoughts. I haven’t sent my DNA yet because the question occurred to me – what will ultimately happen to my DNA?

Sure they have a privacy agreement and whatever – but how can you really be sure that they won’t do anything funny with your DNA? What if they go bankrupt in the future? What will happen to my DNA then? Sold to the highest bidder? I’m not only talking about things like privacy issues like people finding out who I am and my SS# and whatever. What if they use my DNA for something really crazy like cloning or use it on an experiment and then it turns out that my DNA is special or something and they make tons of money off of it but I have no idea? Idk. Shit like that.

I feel bad because my girlfriend spent money on this. But she too was like “Uh, wait. Look into it first I guess.” She heard a rumor that ancestry. com had an issue with a customer about giving falsified information – like they made up some crap about the person’s lineage.