Comment on All Those 23andMe Spit Tests Were Part of a Bigger Plan
Jollyllama@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh come one, we all knew this right? I spit in the tube knowing they’d use it for drugs, sale or some other research shit. They also feel like they made this pretty clear throughoit the process that they’d use your spittle for science.
piecat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s probably the best case scenario honestly. They use our saliva and cure cancer.
The other applications range from questionable to dystopian… Making a database of everyone’s DNA for law enforcement, data leaks and dark-web selling your DNA sequences, insurance buying the data to limit coverage after a claim, forensic genealogy as a way to catch criminals, using forensic genealogy to predict future offenders, targeted bio weapons, future tech like making clones of people, manufacturing fake evidence to plant.
Jollyllama@lemmy.world 1 year ago
One things missing with most of the those: profits. I’d be more worried about bad actors stealing the DNA data and using it for all those. The businesses will keep within regulations to keep the profits rolling in without getting shutdown.
piecat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The business will gladly sell to the alphabet boys. And hackers will definitely get the data from poor security.