Lindsey, do you live in the USA? This is not a compliment to the system I live in, but we have many greedy lawyers who will glad sue anyone with money if they think they can win. Are you familiar with the elderly lady who spilled her cup of coffee from MacDonald's and received a large settlement (millions) because the coffee was too hot? Big corporations regularly settle before court starts giving out hundreds of thousands of dollars. That is trinkets for them. The public relations nightmares are worse. There is a problem. The plaintiffs don't get the lion's share of the money. The lawyers do so no one wins. However, this is a big inhibitor that helps keep corporations in check. This is a moot point anyway. *Bennett Greenspan has clearly stated FTDNA does not send any DNA out of their Houston lab, let alone out of the country.* That charge is without backing. Regards, Mike w On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Lindsey Britton via < genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > Fortunately, FTDNA is big enough and an on-going concern and has terms of > service documented. I could sue them in > court successfully if needed. I don't expect to need that, but that > capability here in the USA is a good inhibitor to > privacy-related malpractice or negligence on FTDNA's part. > > ******************* > > I doubt it. Most of the time lawsuits cost more than the case is worth > and corporations have more money to spend on lawyers than individuals. > > While I have no idea whether FTDNA is sending samples out of the country > for testing, I can say that progress in my Britton project has slowed > considerably this year because of three month delays plus in processing > standard Y- tests. > > So I'm not happy about whatever is happening. > > Lindsey > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GENEALOGY-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Not to dispute Mike W's point about lawyers, but regarding the elderly woman and the hot coffee, which has become a bit of a punching bag and joke over the years, my understanding is that the coffee was so hot she suffered severe burns when it spilled. Whether millions of dollars were an appropriate outcome is questionable, but some recompense was surely appropriate. On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 11:35 PM, Mike W via <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Lindsey, do you live in the USA? This is not a compliment to the system I > live in, but we have many greedy lawyers who will glad sue anyone with > money if they think they can win. > > Are you familiar with the elderly lady who spilled her cup of coffee from > MacDonald's and received a large settlement (millions) because the coffee > was too hot? Big corporations regularly settle before court starts giving > out hundreds of thousands of dollars. That is trinkets for them. The public > relations nightmares are worse. > > >