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I just wonder what happens to everyone's DNA data as the company faces financial trouble and/or sells itself. That's in addition to any concerns about possible
by mterrel 7y ago
I just wonder what happens to everyone's DNA data as the company faces financial trouble and/or sells itself. That's in addition to any concerns about possible security breaches that might occur.
- LatteLazy 7y agoSold to the highest bidder...
- redisman 7y agoI think that's already happened and now they're out of ways to monetize further.
- rolltiide 7y agoWhich contributes to why sales declined. Enough people have had their awkward family gatherings after trying to have fun with a novelty gift. Enough people have watched others mess up otherwise cohesive family structures over what was supposed to be a novelty toy. Enough people have watched the availability for genetic information to go to law enforcement. And that maybe they don't need your specific information to use that effectively, so why give more whether you agree with it or disagree with it. And the uncertainty of this information being stored in perpetuity, available to the highest bidder.
- monadic2 7y agoInterestingly it also got Elizabeth Warren in hot water and accused of normalizing race science by interpreting her test as proof of ethnicity.
- Paul-ish 7y agoThis is an important question. Ancestry, for example, has been taking on debt to pay dividends at the behest of its majority shareholder.
- shostack 7y agoSource?
- quantified 7y agoNot much wonder. Focus more energy on ways to monetize the DNA they have already collected?