Comment on 23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 6 months agoDifferent 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 6 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 6 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.