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Are the services that ancestry and ‘23 and me’ do provided at a loss and made up with the data or is it profitable? Why aren’t there companies out there doing
by skellera 8y ago
Are the services that ancestry and ‘23 and me’ do provided at a loss and made up with the data or is it profitable?
Why aren’t there companies out there doing this at a higher cost without the privacy implications? Just give the user their data and decoding software that is regularly updated with current information.
Seems like low end machines are about $100,000 so it seems like this would work? I would pay 3-4 times as much if I knew I controlled the results.
- ehsankia 8y agoWhere are the privacy implications, most of these privacy "breaches" are just opt-in features, which you don't have to sign up for. Even this one, which is the most extreme by so far: > While the FBI does not have the ability to freely browse genetic profiles in the library