There is no way to know what a buyer will want to do with the reams of genetic information it has collected. Customers, meanwhile, still have no way to change their underlying genetic data.
    • Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I’ve been telling people since this dna testing started that sooner or later that data will be for sale, an insurance company will buy it, and then get used against people to increase their health insurance rates or deny claims.

      But I’m a crazy conspiracy theorist according to everyone ;)

      Same reason I don’t want to buy a new car anymore…

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    You can remove the data yourself but you need to log in with biometrics. A retinal scan, a face recognition scan and a fingerprint. /s

  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    I knew the whole idea of letting a company get your genetic fingerprint was a bad idea from the start. Being curious about my ancestry wasn’t worth it.

  • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I hate this understatement so fucking much. No, those 15 million are just the people that directly gave their dna to 23 & me.

    In reality, you only need to sample the genetic data for a small sample of the population to get the genetic information for the majority of the population. These people have relatives, and 23 & me has their data, too. They have most of ours.

    Saying it just affects those 15 million is such an abysmal misunderstanding of genetics.