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Wonder what happens to the treasure trove of data they have collected though. Hopefully the data is just 'sudo rm -rf —-no-preserve-root' and not included as part of bankruptcy proceedings.
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It's absurd to me how soft deletion took over the entire industry and 'DELETE FROM' became taboo.
Says someone who has never experienced a data loss bug.
I'm not at all saying that soft deletion shouldn't exist. I'm arguing that hard deletion should be the default, and then soft deletion practices should have some justification.
Instead the industry chose to just soft delete everywhere, which is good for the industry, and bad for users.
I have never participated in any of these DNA sites but I have an aunt that pretty much put in our full family tree. Is there anything I can do to remove myself without making an account?
Damn, on Friday, the California DoJ Attorney General issued a warning to consumers about their data: https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bont... This should've been a giveaway that the company was imminently going to go under.
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To `DELETE FROM` you have to have at least a relatively vague idea what you are doing. Go and find an organization that has their data and component dependency maps ready and up to date :) One hard delete can expose months worth of bugs.
'Our data design is too bad to allow anyone to delete anything' is not, to me, a valid reason to prevent actual deletion.
Some billionaire should be an absolute hero: buy this thing and just shut it down. Delete all the data. Salt the earth. Move on.
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I can go and get DNA tests for somewhere between 200-1000 AUD right now. So it’s not crazy if you have a medical reason to do so. What 23andMe did was try and build a startup around this with the intention of monetising that data in other ways later. That’s why it was so cheap that people gave them away for Xmas. Had this just been a private data base of people and connections, it would have cost many times more to g…
You hand over your DNA when you sit down, when you stand up, when you breathe.
Your DNA is not something that you can 100% keep from others.
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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/soft_deletion
It's absurd to me how soft deletion took over the entire industry and 'DELETE FROM' became taboo.
Deleting something you should not have: potentially a business extinction event. And a fine as well.
There are troubling privacy issues, but it was able to tell me: "Toe Length Ratio : Likely second toe longer". I didn't even have to look down! Maybe it was a bad idea. But, I figured if we enter a dystopian future, evil health care companies or governments could easily get my DNA if they want to and/or simply require that information to get care. When you get blood drawn, do you see what they do with it? Hopefully,…
This could actually be a plot point on a dystopian sci-fi movie (identifying people by weird metrics like toe size and such)
Although in the future I imagine it's more likely to be things like arm to torso ratio or gait recognition or similar, done via machine vision.
Even if you have never used 23andMe several people you are related to already have so they have a partial genetic profile of you.