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- privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- technology@lemmy.world
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I’m so glad I never tried any of these DNA services. For exactly this reason.
I feel like there’s a huge gaping hole where advice to consumers not located in California should go.
This is a press release and not a news article though, it’s absolutely not their job or place to say what people in other states or countries should do, they don’t have any jurisdiction or official knowledge of processes or proceedings outside of their state
DNA companies: “Give us your DNA, and we’ll tell you where you come from!”
Me looking at the family tree books on my shelf from both sides of my family.
“NAH! I’m good”
Fuck these DNA harvesting companies
I mean that’s pretty weird in and of itself. If you showed me those I would think “this guy is in a cult” and try to escape asap.
But agreed on fuck 23 and me.
Why is knowing where I come from and having an educated family that wants to keep a record considered a cult?
I don’t know why you are inserting a new phrase “having an educated family” into the conversation but I decline to engage in whatever you’re attempting to do there.
On the actual topic, I associate excessive caring about bloodline with negative things, historically speaking. It has suddenly become important again but in a bad way. The groups that seem to care the most are cults.
It’s weird to be obsessed with your family’s racial origins. It’s not weird to want to know and pass down the stories of your specific family.
I hate to be the one to tell you this, but historically, people who couldn’t write weren’t able to write
I bought the kit through Amazon on sale. I used a fake name and a throw-away email address through a VPN when making the 23&me account and when accessing the results.
Why isn’t it just deleted by default. A government that actually cared about its citizens wouldn’t let the data be sold off at all.
23 and me was set up for the specific purpose to sell your genetic data to pharmaceutical companies, glaxo Kline Smith was one of their clients.( It’s also the British company that Andrew witty worked for( CEO of UHG)
I’ve refrained from using any of these genetic testing companies for obvious (to this community, at least) reasons, but I would like to know that information. Considering advances in technology, is DIYing it a reasonable thing yet?
