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jimbo@lemmy.world 10 months agoSell to insurance companies. Genetic predisposition towards certain illnesses? That’s a premium.
If that’s something that those companies were interested in doing, why wouldn’t they just require people applying for coverage to submit a DNA sample? That would be way easier, more reliable, and less shady compared to trying to piece together profiles based on data being sold on the black market.