No, thanks even if I got paid for this sh*t I won't do this.

[albear]

Don't forget governments who are also salivating for this. Noooooope! Maybe, I'm justa tad, paranoid

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[allaboutweather]

Didn't George Orwell warn us of this?

[albear]

If I recall you did this and you were so happy about the results. Did you read the fine print of this before you submitted?

[allaboutweather]

I might have but only the ancestry stuff.

I mean, I didn't know too much about my family history so curiousity got the better of me there. DX

[procyonid]

Interestingly enough I know several furries who work for 23andme. I get the impression that they feel (earnestly) that their company does the right thing with regards to ethics and privacy, but it's certainly a challenging topic. The fact that sharing your DNA also effectively shares that of your close relatives makes things particularly thorny.

[albear]

Ethics? LOL! there isn't a quaint thing such as ethics anymore. It's monetarization that the modern world cares about. Ethics pfffft! Ethics is gone the way of the dodo bird. And, indeed! I heard about criminals being caught with the DNA from distant family members of the perpetrator.

But what you mentioned is so true, that sharing your DNA also shares almost everything about you and to some extent that of people you know. Sort of the facebook stuff. I will do a DNA test when they sell $99 dollar home DNA sequencer that you can buy and do that in the privacy of your own home. LOL! yeah, that will come in about 200 years after I die.

[sabotlours]

Yeah, I'm seeing the advantages of being a Luddite when it comes to new technology. I'm seriously worried about us becoming more and more of a police state. The less "The System" knows about me...the better.

[albear]

People do this shit for fun. I was always very skeptical on this and I guess our luddite beary tingles were correct. 🐻🐻