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.
  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml
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    27 days 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.

    • FriendBesto@lemmy.ml
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      25 days ago

      Yeah, I feel like I dodged a bullet. As I knew some family members who thought about it but declined to do it because of the for-profit angle in case the company flopped.

    • iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world
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      26 days ago

      Not just yours, but your family 's DNA. You are not much different from your siblings and parents. I was pissed when my brother told me he did one of those stupid DNA tests.

    • iamtherealwalrus@lemmy.world
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      27 days ago

      That’s great but all it takes is some of your blood relatives to submit their genetic data and they can calculate your genetics to a degree that is accurate enough.

  • RaptorBenn@lemmy.zip
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    26 days ago

    No one has any right to complain, this possibility is clearly outlined in the t&c’s every person agreed to.

    Shouldn’t have handed out your defining essence to a corporation.

      • RaptorBenn@lemmy.zip
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        26 days ago

        Who should be responsible for these people agreeing to a contract and then not wanting to honour the contracts terms?

        If personal responsibilty is “a whacked out take” then I’ll take that.

      • aizakku@waterloolemmy.caEnglish
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        26 days ago

        While I do agree its a bit whack, I question if everything needs 100% safety to be legal?

        If someone offers a dangerous thing and you sign a waiver, maybe motocross, if you get injured is it the owners fault? Why should an individual be free from onus?

        • Quadhammer@lemmy.world
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          9 days ago

          Nah. Motocross has an obvious physical risk. Collecting your private info through shady and innocuous legal agreements is horse shit. It would be one thing if they were sworn to do good with the data or something but we know they only want to use it to enrich themselves. The fines would need to be severe like say the 21 and me people should be put under the prison

    • renzev@lemmy.world
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      26 days ago

      “The fuck else were these people expecting” is also my visceral reaction whenever shit like that happens, but if I think about for a bit longer, I realize that it’s not much different than saying “The fuck else were you expecting” to a rape victim who went alone into a dark alley. Sure, people are stupid for engaging with this obvious scam, but the bad guy is still the scammer, not the victims.

  • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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    26 days 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.