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What's the deal with the freaky message about not being able to send spit tests from NY State? Can anyone explain that issue to me?
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Yeah I guess it must be the quota. A pity, because I want to do it, but can't spare the cash yet.
I just ordered at the discount. Check the site again.
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Well, today they're 23andme, arguably in fairly rough waters (which is probably the reason for this promotion in the first place). Tomorrow they could be sold to the highest bidder, who might not feel they were bound to the terms of service of their predecessor. It could be an insurance company, for instance. And based on your name, your genetic data and a whole bunch of other factors they might decide to deny you or…
Remember that one of the key investors is Sergey Brin, so "Don't be evil" would apply to 23andMe. Sergey is married to the co-founder of 23andMe, Anne Wojcicki.
Read their privacy policy first, then decide if you think that 23andme does not explicitly hold open the door to do 'evil'.
edit: afterthought, in fact, any company associated with Google in that way would probably be the last party to give even more private information to, they have enough, if not too much, already.
The dangerous thing about these tests is that they only show if you have a marker for a particular diseases/affliction . This doesn't mean that you'll get the disease - we're still amateurs at this technology and I don't know if I want to live my life perpetually fearful of a disease that I have a marker for, but no relevant data on what the chance that I'll actually get that disease.
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It's not possible to do it anonymously?
I'm really not sure on how to make this even more clear, but your DNA is your identity, so when you give it to someone they have your identity and no amount of anonymization is going to change that. All you're missing is the metadata of 'name, date of birth, social security number' and so on. But that's just a system we've placed on top of 'who you are', which is your genes. Your fingerprint, your retina scan, your f…
What's the deal with the freaky message about not being able to send spit tests from NY State? Can anyone explain that issue to me?
I Just bought six of these. I'm stoked - this is precisely what I've been waiting for for my family. I actually discovered I was lactose intolerant (after 30+ years) through 23andme - somehow that little detail got by me... :-)
So you discovered you were lactose intolerant after 30 years, and throughout those years, you've presumably been drinking milk. Don't you think you would've been just as fine growing old without knowing you couldn't break down lactose?
Genomics certainly improved my life. :-)
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Wouldn't they be tied to the agreement that you had when you signed up for the data? I always thought that you'd have to agree with new "terms-of-use" whenever they change
Just to give you an example, I just bought at an auction the complete contents of a defunct company. Amongst the stuff I got was their servers and their bookkeeping. I never entered in to any agreement with the people whose data is stored on those servers, and yet I have all of it. A 'survival clause' that would guarantee destruction of your data in case the company goes out of business would be a minimum here. But i…
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