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Could you (and others) be more explicit about which privacy concerns you have? Rather than treating them as an amorphous whole, it's probably more accurate to
by nkurz 10y ago
Could you (and others) be more explicit about which privacy concerns you have? Rather than treating them as an amorphous whole, it's probably more accurate to consider each concern individually. I've used 23andMe, and think it's an acceptable low risk compared to the potential benefit. But maybe I'm missing something that's obvious to others.
- nommm-nommm 10y agoWhat's the potential benefit?
- nkurz 10y agoTo me, the main benefit is potential knowledge about specific risks that I might be able to mitigate. But even if it just satisfies my own intellectual curiosity, I find it to be a benefit. To the world, I think that having a large dataset helps to improve the quality of studies such as the one being discussed. There's great utility in having a "hold-out set" for verification. The OP presumably perceives some similar benefits, hence the sense of being "conflicted". Whether the benefits are real is a valid, although separate question than whether the privacy concerns are justified.