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“We will beat up anime kids. … We will bring the American family back to the woods, back to self-sufficiency. … We will oust illegal immigrants with zero mercy.”

It opens with this epigraph: “I have always been an observer of myself. For years, at the mercy of others. Not anymore.”

He said the houses that ended up falling victim to the flames were virtually chosen at random — at the mercy of wherever embers happened to land, some jumping up to a mile ahead of the main fire.

Experts say it shows how users of DNA-testing services can find themselves "completely at the mercy" of such companies when it comes to protecting very sensitive data.

"When you give your data to a company you are completely at their mercy and you have to be able to trust them," Prof Veliz said.