My first reaction on seeing 23andMe and its workalikes was “why the flying fuck would I want to give my DNA information to a corporate entity in this world of ubiquitous corporate surveillance!?”
It’s nice to have cynicism vindicated. Again.
If someone made a chip that read dna and had an open source program to load on a raspberry pi, with no telemetry or creepy stuff, I would pay a LOT
You wouldn’t pay as much as 23andMe would pay to kill it, hence the problem with our current system.
I feel like we could easily have something similar to a DNA testing kit that goes with access to a software that analyzes it that meets your description within our lifetime. Sending it to a lab shouldn’t be necessary forever
Elizabeth Holmes would like a word with you.
I’m fine with some company that has a lock-tight privacy policy in place. Even better if they just send me the results and keep no database. But that’s not what they do. They send it all to the government, and then charge you upsell fees in the form of a subscription to see the same information that they shared with the government without your consent. Okay… You probably gave consent in the 5000 page ToS that you didn’t read, but that’s an argument for a different day.
Has literally decades of corporate interests revealing they don’t know how to secure things not taught you any kind of a lesson?
I don’t want a corporate entity of any kind to have my DNA info on file. They’re all clowns, or, rather, if they’re not clowns now they will be after a single bad quarter when they decide to cut their security team in half.
I did say that it’s better if they have no database…
I don’t understand the unforeseen ramifications he’s talking about for your entire family. I understand the main fear about uncertainty regarding what happens to the data, which is likely sold to the pharmaceutical sector or Institutions. However, what’s the point? I don’t support such companies, but it seems like there’s a lot of fearmongering without much substance. It’s not that different from an ISP or any company collecting data to sell to other companies or institutions. No one expected anything different, and those who did are likely just consumers who don’t care about these issues at the end of the day.
There are examples in there. Police grab data off of a random crime scene, then they generate a pic out of that data. They start looking for a culprit.
Now imagine “the black sheep” of the family, a crackhead cousin or a criminal, steals something and kills someone. Police get in, get a swab, and create a portrait that looks exactly like you. Or better yet, they find matches of the DNA and trace it back to you - who went for the service. Suddenly you are in deep shit and need to prove your innocence. Also imagine you are a public figure - a local polititian, headmaster of the school, whatever. Suddenly you hit the news, and everyone “judges” you to be guilty. Media spread it around, you lose your job.
Bro, nah, that’s borderline Black Mirror writing. It’s possible something like that might happen, but let’s be real, the chance of it happening to a person is almost zero. Even if you’re a public figure - because if that’s happening, someone wants to sabotage you whether they have some DNA information from you or not. And sloppy police work is sloppy police work, no matter what tools might be used or not. I get the privacy concerns and the not knowing part. It’s not a conspiracy, it’s just a for-profit data accumulation company, that will sell to anyone with the right money. Sure, some data might be misused to frame someone, or by regimes or institutions and, of course, by other for-profit companies to create products. But that’s neither unexpected nor surprising.
Even with a full DNA sequence, recreating it (how even?) and placing it at a crime scene without police or lab involvement is highly complex and unlikely. Using hairs or other physical evidence is more feasible for framing someone?
I don’t understand the unforeseen ramifications he’s talking about
That’s the way ‘unforeseen’ tends to work.
Oh, okay, thank you. So, that’s it? Just clickbait? - edit: By that, I mean the title could mean something like he found something unexpected or unforeseen and therefore wrote this article with this headline. Or, it could mean nothing if there’s nothing unforeseen or unexpected written about in the article, which I call clickbait here.
No one expected anything different
Pretty much everyone, all of society, expected something different. That’s why people were so loose with what they gave away, before it became known how insidious the tracking and violation of implicit trust was. That’s why we’re just now getting legislation into place, 30 years after Google started gobbling up everyone’s data. Nobody expected how pervasive the spying would become.
yeah my sister did that one awhile back and sent me the results and i was like thanks for sharing my dna to the corpos
Where did your sister unknowingly get your dna from? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
LOL from their parents
hmm… probably from our parents? where do you think dna comes from?
I envy you for not getting my harmless dirty joke. Please keep your innocent mind.
so you are continuing to impugn my parentage, my bastardage, and my lack of parents whatsoever by insulting my family and my fragile smooth brain. nice.
Please slow down on that… It wasn’t meant to hurt your feelings nor to insult your family. It was just a opportunity for a dirty joke.
Please accept my sincere apology if I have offended you.
Everything good between us now?i promise i was not offended, and i was just playin
edit: you are good, internet person. i wish you and yours well.
Oh you. I’m blushing. I wish you the very best too.
Found out I had two brothers. One unknown and we reconnected. One was raised and known to me as my cousin.
That’s crazy! How did that happen? Were you adopted, or were they half siblings, or what?
Aren’t we fingerprinted, thrown into the feds system, and labeled with a social and birth certificate from the very get go?
I mean heading out more.personal data is bad but if you are in the U.S. isn’t there a system already in place?
DNA is different. My fingerprints are nothing like my family’s fingerprints. Our DNA is very similar.
If your sister does 23 and me, that company, law enforcement, and unknown organizations in the future will all have most of your DNA without your consent.
Are they fingerprinting babies these days?
They didn’t do that or assign SSNs when I was born.
My dad had to apply to get my SSN at some point when I was like 6-8 years old to continue claiming me as a dependent on his taxes.
Granted, that was over 40 years ago but I don’t remember any of that happening when my 19 year old was born either (except for the birth certificate).
Must’ve not yet been a tax requirement when I was a young whippersnapper. Didn’t get a SS# until it was needed for my first job at 9, in the coal mines.
I didn’t get my first W2 job until 13… Lol … maybe we’re a few years apart.
Still feels like I’m from a whole different planet than a lot of the people online these days.
