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Sperm donor father identified using internet
Published Thursday, November 03, 2005 by Attu | | E-mail this post
A teenager born from an anonymous sperm donation has managed to track down his biological father using a swab of saliva and the internet, in a case that could throw donor anonymity into disarray.
Scientists have given warning that men who have given sperm are now at risk of being traced by offspring with the dramatic growth of genealogy and DNA databases on the internet.
They said that guarantees of identity secrecy, which have been given to thousands of donors over the years, could prove worthless with the increase in such resources.
