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This is a great deal, although I'm torn. We are about to add a new member to our family, so this would make an awesome 0th birthday gift, but the prospects of k
by infinite8s 17y ago
This is a great deal, although I'm torn. We are about to add a new member to our family, so this would make an awesome 0th birthday gift, but the prospects of knowing all the health information up front is rather scary (and who knows who might be able to access it in the future - it needs some sort of secure swiss bank setup).
Welcome to Gattaca!
- jacquesm 17y ago> and who knows who might be able to access it in the future - it needs some sort of secure swiss bank setup That's exactly my problem with this. And no amount of anonymization will help here, after all, not even your finger prints identify you as solidly as your full genome does.
- mechanical_fish 17y agoIf you're gonna be paranoid about Gattaca you need to go all the way. DNA sequencing is going to be so cheap that it will be more cost-effective to sequence your ambient DNA from an elevator button or a used tissue than to look up your obsolete sequence data from some old 20th-century corporate database. The problem of misuse of DNA sequence information may be very real, but whether or not you do business with 23andme is probably an insignificant blip. We need legal safeguards, not minor-league personal boycotts.
- jacquesm 17y agoMinor league personal boycotts can raise the awareness and lead to better legal safeguards.