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23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users
(techcrunch.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
What is your concern with doing a DNA spit test? I'm honestly curious, because I haven't heard an actual answer yet. I don't see how it exposes any more information compared to what advertisers already have.
Advertisers have my preferences and buying and watching habits, my DNA is.. my DNA. That's another whole level
But why? Why is your DNA more you than literally every thing you've ever looked at or expressed an interest in?
Cataloging individual DNA data casually at a massive scale opens the door for massive genetic discrimination of all kinds, from discriminatory health insurance premiums and hiring discrimination to aparthied, eugenics, and genocide. "Don't be silly that'll never happen here." Is the height of affluent arrogance.
Humans have proven themselves to be fully capable of these horrors, it is just a matter of time until it happens again, and when we create tools of consolidated power-- just like IBM created machines that enabled Nazi concentration camps--we only increase the chance of enabling some deranged element of society oto repeat these catastrophic horrors.
All that downside just so we can consume 15 minutes of dopamine.
I'm surprised how based everyone here is being. So many people are just "give over all your information bro, the corporations will get it anyway."