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RE: Invisible People... in the Age of the Internet and no Privacy
Very true... with the friend who could not find her birth parents after adoption, it was eventually concluded that someone (now dead) had actually been bribed to falsify information on the adoption records, birth certificate and elsewhere. An effort had been made to create an unsurpassable "non-trail."
DNA databases get more numerous and larger all the time. She can't get rid of her DNA, neither can her parents.
Indeed. With someone younger it would probably have been different; with someone in their late 40's looking for parents probably nearing 70, a whole different set of records were kept.
There are various databases around, not all of them are available to be searched.
For instance, I think that all foreigners entering The U.K. have their DNA taken. I'm unsure where else this is done, yet. New uses are being found daily. Medical, criminal, and immigration enforcement among them.