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Sperm donor anonymity threatened by technology The identity of anonymous sperm donors is revealed in Facebook groups and by new technologyPhoto: ScanpixPhoto: ScanpixGrafik: Diede Linnet Van De MosselaarDanish legislation on anonymous sperm donation is being overtaken by technology. Both in the form of DNA tests and social media. Graphics: Diede Linnet Van De Mosselaar In Denmark, you can be both non-anonymous and anonymous sperm donor. With an anonymous donor, the donor child must not be given information about the donor's identity. But it is the anonymity that is now being threatened. Graphics: Diede Linnet Van De Mosselaar It is both easy and cheap to do a DNA test. For less than 500 kroner online and with a saliva sample or a mouth scraper, as you know it from corona tests, you can take a home test. Graphics: Diede Linnet Van De Mosselaar The result of your DNA test is now posted among millions of other test results in companies' DNA databases. It is part of the agreement you have entered into by purchasing the test. Graphics: Diede Linnet Van De Mosselaar Graphics: Diede Linnet Van De Mosselaar In the DNA companies' database, you will now be matched with the people you share genes with and who have also made a DNA test. It is called a DNA match. Graphics: Diede Linnet Van De Mosselaar The database also contains your contact information, so now your DNA matches can find you. Graphics: Diede Linnet Van De Mosselaar However, it is not only you, your DNA matches can find. Because once your DNA is in the database, you have opened up for others to find your close family members through genealogy. Graphics: Diede Linnet Van De Mosselaar In this way, donor children can in some cases track down an anonymous sperm donor, even though he has never taken a DNA test himself. Graphics: Diede Linnet Van De Mosselaar Private groups and forums on social media are also an effective tool for donor children in the hunt for genetic origin. Graphics: Diede Linnet Van De MosselaarIn Denmark, the largest Facebook group “Donor child - sperm donor - egg donor” with almost 7,000 members. Below is the private forum "Donor children without number", where donor children can share information and pictures of themselves with other donor children. In this way, they can find donor siblings. Graphics: Diede Linnet Van De Mosselaar Based on technological development, several Danish sperm banks have begun to inform their anonymous donors that they can no longer guarantee their anonymity. This Brix Andersson encountered a potential half-sister on Facebook. It sparked the emotions: Graphics: Diede Linnet Van De Mosselaar