Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Consumer DNA
Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Consumer DNA
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I AM VINDICATED.
So many people I know kept pushing me to do this cause they thought it was fun, and they always thought I was paranoid for saying I didn't want to give a corp my literal dna.
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At my job with the city the way you punch-in is using your fingerprint. I told them I didn't want to do it. It's the only way to do it. When I looked into it, the company owns your biometric data and can do whatever they want with it. Can't wait to see the blowback on this one.
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This makes me want to get into biometrics spoofing even more. Not to take someone else’s identity but in order to hide my real biometrics.
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We all knew this shit was coming. Big Pharma is cartoon villain shit.
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I honestly thought they were already doing this.
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They've been giving it to cops for a while. They'll use the extended family to pin point their unknown person, so like if you have some third cousins that have gotten in, they'll possibly be able to find you. If a parent has their information in, or both, well your family for a few generations will be fucked.
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We all knew this was going to happen honestly, but it makes me want to puke to think that it's even legal.
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We all assumed it was already happening
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Every damn warning we said about this company has come true. The only reason this is legal is because there's money to be made at the expense of others.
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So glad my relatives that are into genealogy/family tree research see DNA companies like this as cheating
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yeah just talk to your grandparents if you want to know this stuff goodness sake. Any ancestral connection to a place past 5 generations is wiped out anyway
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It helps that my family doesn't give a shit about where our ancestors lived and care more about how we're related to other members of our ethno-religous group. Like they'll meet someone with a certain last name, ask a few questions about grandparents and your mother's maiden name, and figure out you're second cousins three times removed, that sort of thing. No one's looking back to see which corner of eastern europe they could claim right of return to just because their great-great-great-great-grandfather lived there
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The three grandparents who are dead, or the one who's descending into dementia?
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I FUCKING KNEW IT
Health insurance is next if they don’t have it already.
I’m still convinced this data will be used for eugenics too.
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Linking 23andMe's press release because every article I can find on it is paywalled
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other research
Ominous
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Under terms of the new data license, 23andMe will provide GSK with access to de-identified, summary data from global genome- and phenome-wide analysis of the 23andMe database, for a 12-month period, and offer its research services for analyses of the data over that same period.
Wait that’s fine. That’s part of the point of 23andMe, de-identified data being used for research was always one of the selling points.
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I mean "anonymized" data very frequently is pretty easy to de-anonymize
but yeah nobody commenting doom and gloom seems to have read the details cause its all paywalled
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literally anybody could have seen this coming
Death to America
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my family also kept trying to get me to do this and every time I was like if you think I'm gonna give some random company my DNA you're out of your god damned mind
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excited for my cousin to get diagnosed with cancer or something and have my insurance rates go up
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Sure, but when I tell companies that they should pollute less so people can live healthier, I'm the nosy busybody.
MFW a lot of my mom's side of the family are WASPs so they gladly did this shit, because in their mind, the private sector always has their back. Now the corpos have some of my DNA that they can infer thanks to my uncle wanting he find out if he had any royal blood or something lmao. I hate the antichrist.
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What's a WASP in this context?
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White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, describing what you'd think of when you think of capital W White People
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It stands for "Windows Advanced Server Package" and the most recent release introduces advanced multi-layer security, hybrid capabilities with Azure, and a flexible application platform.
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It stands for Western Asshole Shitty Person, and describes anyone whose takes are so bad that :gulag: is not enough
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23andMe&Billionaires
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Death to 23andMe, death to "drugmakers", and death to America.
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Class action incoming hopefully
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looking like a real "you can't unlick my asshole" situation here honestly
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They will pay a symbolic $23 million, 80% of which will go to the lawyers
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No way. I'm certain their TOS covers this.
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You need to have the research option enabled for your data to be included in this, iirc
*edit: but I agree with your sentiment. This shouldn't even be an option they could pursue.
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it's bad that this is non-consensual and for-profit but a large genetic database is helpful for developing medications
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I agree. Under socialism, a database of genetics would be truly fantastic for medical research and preemptively alerting people at risk of certain disorders. Under capitalism it's an excuse to not insure people.
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Still pissed at my family all getting these done. Thanks for putting me in every single database against my will
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I thought it said “dogmakers” and became very intrigued for a moment
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Do it now
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So this effects about 90% of white Americans. They're the only ones I see taking this shit seriously.
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It really sucks because it's not just the data of the people who chose to participate in this, but also effectively all of of these people's biological children.
I know that my idiot parents both did one of these things - it's so frustrating.
Sorry sweetie you can’t have low deductible health insurance because meemaw and peppep wanted to see what % Cherokee they were 50 years ago
My siblings did it, so they effectively have mine
I know damn well this will be used for one drop rule purposes in the future.