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In my limited understanding, this means that you can now pay twice as much as before to receive much less information than before. There must be a lab located outside the US (and with no US footprint or marketing) that will nonetheless provide full results to anyone providing a sample.
https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/202907670...
The iffy part was the medical advice.
From their privacy policy:
>How is my privacy protected? >We will not share your individual-level information with any third party without your explicit consent
Both "individual-level" and "third-party" still leave a LOT of room for things to be shared. - At what level is the data allowed to be shared if not "individual-level"?
- Exactly who are third parties (is Google a third party?) and who decides that? Can it change tomorrow?
- What happens in the case they are bought out by some one? If they go bankrupt? What happens to the data?
Still too many unexplained items
Can we ask for a Test and once we get the Results optionally have them destroy all records except the financial transaction ones? From their privacy policy: >How is my privacy protected? >We will not share your individual-level information with any third party without your explicit consent Both "individual-level" and "third-party" still leave a LOT of room for things to be shared. - At what level is the data allowed…
also, I don't trust them with my DNA data anymore.
I would like to know how the new report compares to the old one. Also of note, the price has gone up from $99 (as of earlier this week) to $199. edit: This NYTimes article has more details: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/21/business/23andme-will-resu... Now, after nearly two years, 23andMe is announcing on Wednesday that it will begin providing customers with health information again, though much less than before and…
I guess the US version has been priced differently?
I would like to know how the new report compares to the old one. Also of note, the price has gone up from $99 (as of earlier this week) to $199. edit: This NYTimes article has more details: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/21/business/23andme-will-resu... Now, after nearly two years, 23andMe is announcing on Wednesday that it will begin providing customers with health information again, though much less than before and…
It's been $199 CAD for at least a year or more now. I got mine when it was on a sale for $99. I guess the US version has been priced differently?
It seems to indicate a high level of naivety on the part of 23&Me in terms of the regulatory requirements around genetic testing.
What Hibbs found was that 23andMe and the FDA were not even speaking the same language. The FDA is guided by laws and regulations that limit what it can say, and 23andMe wasn’t picking up on the agency’s cues. FDA officials would leave 23andMe an opening to change the way carrier testing was regulated, for instance, and 23andMe would ask an unrelated question.
A part of me thinks it wasn't naivety and it was more "move fast and break things".
[1]http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2015/10/21/23andme...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
why, what happened?
I remember reading somewhere that they share the DNA info with gov't agencies.
SNP sequencing is the ultimate fingerprint, far more individually identifying than anything else as of yet. Imagine having 900,000+ criterion to cross reference to determine identity.
Man, why is it so expensive? To test my wife and I would be nearly $400. I mean sure, it might help me be able to pre-treat any known trait based disease but still.. If all they are doing is running some DNA through a database, seems like the cost should getting lower, not higher.