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My gf wanted so bad for me to send my DNA to these clowns. I declined due to privacy reasons. She tried to convince me that they keep your info private. I told her that even if that was true, the government could still access it. She thinks I'm paranoid. And now her personal info is likely part of this leak.
You're paranoid and she's probably part of the leak.
The odds the government gives any kind of shit about your 23 and me data, much less could competently do anything with it, are vanishingly small. That's just pure paranoia.
Sadly you are mistaken here, the government is very interested in your DNA data. Check out this article about how they caught the golden state killer: