Comment on 23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users
r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru 11 months agoI wonder how many people like this turn around and then use electronic payments in person for everything.
Comment on 23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users
r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru 11 months agoI wonder how many people like this turn around and then use electronic payments in person for everything.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Different levels of privacy. Electronic payments only reveal what you buy and at least serves a utility. 23andme is just for vanity and could reveal your preexisting conditions or family tree to people who would use it against you.
r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru 11 months ago
Each transaction isn’t that much. Beating the path toward a cashless economy is a different story.
Do you remember the pregnant teenager outed to her parents over big data advertising?
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 11 months ago
All I’m saying is that the two are not equivalent and people aren’t hypocrites for doing eletronics payments, but refusing vanity dna tests.