Comment on Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Consumer DNA

Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  who’s not caring? They ask for consent

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  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    True, but I think the shady thing is that the data transmission is framed as “Research Participation” - which sounds a lot better than “allow us to sell your data to other companies and institutions.”

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    • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s understandable they phrase it like that when themselves are the main consumer of this data for their own research. I fail to see any shady behavior from their part here whatsoever. Regarding 23andMe, I’m vastly more concerned with the data leak episode they had recently and what they’re doing to prevent a future episode like this.

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      • dpkonofa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It wasn’t a data leak. It was an authorization incursion brought on by users using the same username/email and password combo on other sites that had been compromised. If people don’t have 2FA enabled for these accounts, then it’s on them. There’s literally nothing that 23andme can do about a situation like that when unauthorized users have both the email and password for an account without 2FA. They might have been able to force 2FA on accounts but it’s too late for that when other accounts are compromised.

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