Comment on How to Delete Your 23andMe Data.

doylio@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• alphapuggle@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Giving them your genetic data was fine, but your birthday was too much?

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  • doylio@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I tried to hide my identity as much as possible when I made the account. This included using a pseudo-random email address, fake name, fake address, and (unfortunately) fake birthday, as all of those things could be used as foreign keys to try to match my identity

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    • Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You have to keep track of your fake identity next time

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    • RightEdofer@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The real DNA negates a lot of that unfortunately. If any family member also used the service they can use that to triangulate your identity.

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• douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Let this be a lesson to write down any fake data you enter into accounts.

  My keepass entries maintain all the fake form into for each account, makes it possible to move forward in instances just like this.

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• olympicyes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Try 1/1/1969.

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