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What happens to your data if 23andMe collapses? (news.harvard.edu)
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[-] db2@lemmy.world 84 points 2 months ago

It isn't yours, if you use them you signed it all over to them. They patented your DNA.

[-] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 70 points 2 months ago

I’m hoping in 500 years, my DNA sequence is found on a perfectly preserved micro SD card and my clone gets to meet President Camacho and take on Beef Supreme and the Dildozer on Monday Night Rehabilitation.

[-] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

That's the optimistic timeline, we still have to actually get there first.

I am sure you can come with what a pessimistic timeline would look like.

[-] felbane@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

I don't have to, I watched Planet of the Apes

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 months ago

They patented your DNA.

You can't patent DNA... They can sell it though, with a simple TOS update (if they even need to).

[-] db2@lemmy.world -2 points 2 months ago
[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

For those too lazy to click through:

However, on June 13, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in the Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc, that human genes cannot be patented because DNA is a “product of nature.” All gene patents were invalidated with this ruling. However, the ruling did not prohibit the patenting of DNA that is manipulated (i.e., no longer a product of nature) or processes for identifying DNA sequences.

[-] slickgoat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

So if a lab rat adds, deletes or edits a person's DNA it is no longer a 'product of nature'?

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

[...] human genes cannot be patented because DNA is a “product of nature.” All gene patents were invalidated with this ruling.

did you paste the link to admit you were wrong?

[-] db2@lemmy.world -2 points 2 months ago

Did you stop reading before you should have?

[-] Flagstaff@programming.dev 10 points 2 months ago

The monsters.

Well, that originally autocorrected to "mobsters," but I suppose that'd work in a certain context, too.

[-] deranger@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That’s not true in the slightest. I agree with the fuck 23&me sentiment but you don’t have to make things up to criticize them.

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