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2024-09-21 Economy

Every board member of DNA company 23andMe just resigned

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Posted by 3dc 2024-09-21 02:44|| || Front Page|| [11124 views ] Top

#1 So when it files for bankruptcy, who's going to get all those files?

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-09-21 07:13|| 2024-09-21 07:13|| Front Page Top

#2

Was given a kit for my birthday a few years ago. I refused to use it because there was no absolute assurances that the data would be held secure and not sold and shared.

Also reading on back channels that a company merging with it wants to use AI the sort thru collected social data and DNA related data for political agenda purposes.

Posted by NN2N1 2024-09-21 08:09|| 2024-09-21 08:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Once you've done an ancestry test and they show you a family tree, there's not much further products to sell you

Posted by Frank G 2024-09-21 09:01|| 2024-09-21 09:01|| Front Page Top

#4 So then you go private and become the outsource for those who are interested in genetics for -whatever reason-.

Unless you are one of those wacky foil hat people who think it was a honeypot operation to harvest DNA from the get-go. Man, those people, I'll tell ya.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-09-21 09:59|| 2024-09-21 09:59|| Front Page Top

#5 I have donating blood to the Red Cross since High School. There is little chance that my DNA has not been bought and sold. No sense in paying a company money to exploit me.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-09-21 10:38|| 2024-09-21 10:38|| Front Page Top

#6
If I were a Insurance company I could use the data to determine which to insure or not. What to charge and when to drop coverage due to genetics.

Not sure if Alcohol, drug use, med's used could be detected from the swab simple?

Posted by NN2N1 2024-09-21 10:39|| 2024-09-21 10:39|| Front Page Top

#7 The original mission, as I understand it, was to provide a data base for medical research, which would inevitably lead to blockbuster drug treatments — doing very well by doing good. Unfortunately, that has not yet delivered. And of course there were the data breaches.

But at least no one is accusing her of faking the tests and test results.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-09-21 12:09|| 2024-09-21 12:09|| Front Page Top

#8 Not sure if Alcohol, drug use, med's used could be detected from the swab simple?

No, but many undue characteristics can be assumed from a common detail. Like BMI.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-09-21 13:07|| 2024-09-21 13:07|| Front Page Top

#9 Don't insurance companies do a swab test for tobacco use when an applicant applies for Life Insurance?

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-09-21 13:52|| 2024-09-21 13:52|| Front Page Top

#10 Her sister Susan Wojcicki and former YouTube CEO passed away recently, said to be from 'turbo cancer'.

Another fishy family out of Silicon Valley.

Posted by DooDahMan 2024-09-21 14:17|| 2024-09-21 14:17|| Front Page Top

#11 Covid Swabs, especially the anal swabs, wait whut?

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-09-21 14:28|| 2024-09-21 14:28|| Front Page Top

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