It was clear from the beginning that 23 and me wasnt selling these far below cost out of the goodness of their heart. They were going to use it to profit one way or the other. The question was how not if.
With NIH and FDA oversight and HIPPA compliance right?
Right?
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.
That’s probably the best case scenario honestly. They use our saliva and cure cancer. That’s a great thing for humanity.
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, using genetic info to target certain types of people (race, gender, what if sexuality is genetic)
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.
The business will gladly sell to the alphabet boys. And hackers will definitely get the data from poor security.
I’m pretty sure they were upfront about their intended use to help research personalized medication. This isn’t some conspiracy.
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Yeah, from two years ago and it wasn’t even surprising then.
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They do, there is a wide range of genetic tests done on newborns. Mostly looking for rare genetic diseases that need treatment from birth. https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/Newborn-Genetic-Screening
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Not suprised. Also not suprised they have been handing this data over to law enforcement for years now. Its no just to track down people whove taken said test but also people who are related even distantly. The fbi estimates they can use dna evidance to single dowm the possible people to 2 or 3 out of the entiriry of the us
The fbi estimates they can use dna evidance to single dowm the possible people to 2 or 3 out of the entiriry of the us
i am not sure what you mean by this sentence, but you probably misunderstood something.
dna doesn’t single down anything, as in it would help you track something. it tells you if two genetic profiles are a match (that means they come from same person), or that they are genetically similar and how distant they are - that tells you that the profiles come from x times removed relatives. after that, it is down to normal police work.
here is veritasium video about how they used this technology to find and convict the infamous golden state killer - https://piped.video/watch?v=KT18KJouHWg
Yeah and with a big enough database u can get an almost perfect modal of the country and everyones placw in it.
with big enough database you simple have every single person in it. that still doesn’t back up the quote i disputed in any way. can you find source of the quote? i’d be interested to see the original.
They caught the Bay Area Strangler(or whatever his title was) by finding a dna relative match on one of these services and using that to narrow down suspects. DNA can absolutely be used to narrow things down without just having a direct 1:1 match saying it’s THAT person.
they “narrowed it down” to about 1000 people. that is the case covered by video i linked in my comment above.
the sentence The fbi estimates they can use dna evidance to single dowm the possible people to 2 or 3 out of the entiriry of the us is still nonsense
It’s not exclusively DNA they’re using.
It never was exclusively DNA.
There are location, sex, age, and other factors to consider that help narrow it down. You could have 1000 close matches, but only half a dozen or so that could actually have committed the crime, and only a few of them that fit the profile.
You guys are arguing semantics. Walk away…
This isn’t even new. Why are we posting things from over two years ago and treating it like some sort of revelation?
I never understood the appeal of the business in the first place. Why would you care who your great great great grandpa was? I don’t even care who my Grandpa was.
Why would you care who your great great great grandpa was?
I was able to find out that my great grandfather was adopted, and meet a whole new wing of my family. I didn’t even do the test, my aunt did.
About 10 years ago they provided medical data from the samples. I used 23 And Me too confirm that a health problem I’d recently been diagnosed with was hereditary. At the time I remember being asked if my sample could be used to aid the type of research the OP talks about and I agreed to it.
A couple of years ago, I think 23 And Me was bought out by Virgin Healthcare, at that point I asked them to destroy all my data was worried about it being used to increase the cost of or preclude health insurance.
Called it.
Can you show us where?
Fuck yeah we did!
Seems icky to me.
I donated my DNA to a research project. I have Crohn’s disease and type 1 diabetes. I’m likely autoimmune prone.
I get updates about what it’s used for. Usually trying to identify causes for autoimmune diseases. It feels good to help out the people fighting disease.
But that’s sort of the point. You donated it knowing it was going to research. People using 23andme did not. And they will not be getting updates on the research either.
They were very clear it was for research in my memory. That was the reason I did it.
I just remembered that destin from smarter everyday did a dedicated video about the privacy of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3EEmVfbKNs, then, was it complete bull shit?
I bought a pair of them. The lady and I thought it over for years and finally ended up shit-canning them. It just didn’t feel right.
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No shit sherlock
What’s funny to me about these DNA testing companies, isn’t the obvious data collection ploy, but the customers who feel compelled to buy the service. So the fuck what you’re 13% Cherokee and 27% Dutch and 5% Eastern African? Try developing a personality or interests.
Try developing a personality or interests.
says the guy criticizing strangers on the internet.
OH SNAP, bro!! You sure told him, Tiger! Good show, old chap! Bravo! Sugoi!!!
Seriously how dare people want to learn about their ancestors and where they came from? Obviously that means they have no personality!
