The ability to match dna to individuals is sadly pretty easy and even the idea that you can "de-identify" dna is the elephant in the room for things like HIPPA since dna is the most identifiable thing a person has.
Looking at things like this - https://phys.org/news/2013-03-easy-identity-cell.html
https://33bits.wordpress.com/about/
etc
Having DNA and just looking at the traits that person has will reduce the population down to a pretty manageable number. Any other bits - location, gender, etc will be enough to make an educated guess to an almost certain one. This will not become more difficult to do in the future.
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