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| Subject: Social engineering: Website helps Icelanders avoid incest Thu Feb 09, 2012 4:42 am | |
| A website in Iceland aims to help residents of the tiny island nation from getting too close for comfort.
With a population of just 300,000, Icelanders face a real danger of accidentally dating a cousin.
Enter Íslendingabók, or the Book of Icelanders, an online resource that tracks 1,200 years worth of genealogical data on the country's inhabitants, according to the website.
All Icelanders have to do to prevent incest is type in their name and the name of a potential love interest -- that is, provided they have an "Icelandic ID number," since the database is restricted to citizens and legal residents.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/website-helps-icelanders-avoid-incest-article-1.1018688 |
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