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

pete_the_cat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• hh93@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Luckily I didn’t do mine at all since it was obvious from the start that eventually stuff like this would happen once enough people gave their DNA away like that…

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  • pete_the_cat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It all depends on how shitty the company is. 23andMe popped up like 5-10 years ago, Ancestry.com was founded in 1997 and existed offline before that. AFAIK they’ve never been involved in any scandals. They just sent me an email today saying “login requirements are changing, you need to enable 2FA, the privacy of our users is of utmost importance.” Yeah I know everyone says that, but some companies actually do mean it.

    If you’ve ever had any lab work done where you’ve given blood, they have your DNA anyway.

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