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Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Consumer DNA
(www.bloomberg.com)
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Oh man i cant wait to say i told you so to family members
I'm waiting for the part where the US insurance companies are discovered using that data en mass to increase premiums and deny coverage.
That's going to be my "I told you so".
That will take a long time, right now analyzing one person's DNA to a point where an insurance company could profit from it costs way more than the extra profits from denying some potentially short-lived clients.
(or an AI based analyzer is already in the works)
Considering prior authorization is predicated on the fact that if they reject enough requests inevitably some people won't fight them, meaning they don't have to pay out, I wouldn't be surprised if they use a slightly better than chance prediction as justification for denying coverage, if they even need an actual excuse to begin with.
I'm old enough that a lot of things that were going to take a long time have come to pass, so I feel confident this will come.
AI and genetics are both moving fairly fast, and insurance is about numbers and probabilities.
Don't expect much lol, when I pointed out that this was inevitable the most common response was "who cares?"
Privacy is dead mainly because your average person doesn't actually care about it
Privacy is dead because of the average person. They were informed several times, but they decided it wasn't important. And they ruined it for everyone else who cared.
Were they of the idea that when you tick the "my data can be used anonymously for research" box it meant that their data WOULDN'T be used anonymously for research?