Just three years ago, DNA testing company 23andMe was the golden child of Wall Street and Main Street. Today, the company is struggling to remain listed on the Nasdaq.
Well first off it isn’t just you. It is your family as well. Maybe your cousin is more privacy minded and doesn’t appreciate it. Did you get their consent before you spit?
Secondly if you can’t think of how this could be misused you have a failure of imagination. We already know that a list of people with Jewish background leaked and it is an open question what happens next with that, but I highly doubt anything good. Maybe other minorities will be targeted next? Roma for example or the autistic. It doesn’t even have to be nightmarish like terrorism and tailored germs it could be boring oppression.
Right so just because something might happen eventually doesn’t absolve anyone of what we do today.
It is already understood that you don’t really have a right to privacy decades after your death. If someone wants to map out my DNA and sell it they can when I am dead and my kids are dead and my grandkids are dead with my blessing.
ha no, this is happening today. we are catching criminals today that are tangentially related to dna samples in databases all over the place. its not going to be multiple decades after death. the more data added. the easier it is today to be able triangulate people already related to you. because at the heart of the matter, we are all related.
the resolution will only get better in the next few years as we start slapping LLMs on it.
your dna has no value.
dna databases have value.
i agree, no need to wait on extending anti-discrimination laws. lets do it yesterday.
i care more about my amazon password leaking than anyone having my irrevocably unchangeable dna. why worry about it?
Found the 23&me CEO 👆
huh?
Don’t play dumb
i point out some basic facts about DNA and suddenly im some moron who thinks DNA is a business?
dont play idiot
Yes.
Glad you came to that self realization. Saves us all a bunch of time.
Edit: If DNA wasn’t a business, Henrietta Lacks cells wouldn’t be a thing.
Well first off it isn’t just you. It is your family as well. Maybe your cousin is more privacy minded and doesn’t appreciate it. Did you get their consent before you spit?
Secondly if you can’t think of how this could be misused you have a failure of imagination. We already know that a list of people with Jewish background leaked and it is an open question what happens next with that, but I highly doubt anything good. Maybe other minorities will be targeted next? Roma for example or the autistic. It doesn’t even have to be nightmarish like terrorism and tailored germs it could be boring oppression.
i get your fear, really, i do. ive never said it couldnt be abused. im saying dna is not private. its the worlds longest username.
it is a finite dataset. it will be inevitably be mapped across the entire planet, and guess what, it will be public.
you want to approach the Use of this data, go crazy. that is an important task.
i am personally not going to go around pretending my code is special or valuable or not publicly available.
you can do you, but at some point regardless of any activity on your part, you will be on the graph.
Right so just because something might happen eventually doesn’t absolve anyone of what we do today.
It is already understood that you don’t really have a right to privacy decades after your death. If someone wants to map out my DNA and sell it they can when I am dead and my kids are dead and my grandkids are dead with my blessing.
ha no, this is happening today. we are catching criminals today that are tangentially related to dna samples in databases all over the place. its not going to be multiple decades after death. the more data added. the easier it is today to be able triangulate people already related to you. because at the heart of the matter, we are all related.
the resolution will only get better in the next few years as we start slapping LLMs on it.
your dna has no value.
dna databases have value.
i agree, no need to wait on extending anti-discrimination laws. lets do it yesterday.
but again, my dna is not private, today.
The pre-cogs have determined that you will commit murder in 20 years. Please do not resist when you are arrested for future crime.