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23andMe User Data Stolen in Targeted Attack on Ashkenazi Jews
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You say that like it's a negative thing.
Some people actually want to know things and are curious about where they came from, what they're made of, who their family is.
Submitting your DNA can increase your knowledge. It sounds like you can't believe people would seek knowledge.
I’d love to know all of that. I just don’t ever trust a private corporation to safeguard my highly personal and unique DNA information from:
It’s too easy for a company to skimp on staff and digital security and then say “we’re soooo sowwwy, have 3 months of identity fraud protection on us” if they find a breach.
The point I think you could be missing is that the organizations which do this have been at best irresponsible, at worst negligent, in protecting customers personal information. There are obviously benefits to ~~this~~ a genetic record. Preserving a comprehensive genetic record for future generations to study is one. A database for law enforcement to use to solve very serious crimes like murder and rape. All that would be wonderful, but that information is already being misused and abused. Most people, myself included, don't think these organizations will ever be responsible to their customers cause who the hell would believe that these days?