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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Privacy@programming.devEnglish · 13 days ago

Don’t buy online DNA ancestry tests. You are the real product

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Don’t buy online DNA ancestry tests. You are the real product

www.irishtimes.com

Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Privacy@programming.devEnglish · 13 days ago
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Net Results: The sale of DNA databases for private research is of huge ethical concern
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    This article is from 2018. Just pointing out this isn’t breaking news.

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      Back then 23andMe hadn’t been sold off with all it’s data, so they certainly had it right.

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    This was obvious from the very beginning of online dna testing. Ancestry is particularly douchy as they encourage you to fill in your family history, building the ancestry wiki they then sell to others.

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    Can I sue my cousin for giving our family to them against my consent?

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    Duh.

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