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Exactly this! This is not just a personal privacy decision (i.e. I give or not my DNA). If any of my family gave their DNA, I am now traceable. This is expon

by llsf 6y ago

Exactly this! This is not just a personal privacy decision (i.e. I give or not my DNA). If any of my family gave their DNA, I am now traceable. This is exponentially bad, and not regulated accordingly. The Blackstone Group is the private equity owning Motel 6... the very same Motel 6 that voluntary helped ICE by giving guest lists ?!? So what is next ? They also owned several companies in healthcare, including a company doing respiratory equipments and another one providing medical services. DNA collection should be regulated way more strictly.

csomar 6y ago
Not trying to defend blackstone but they have half a trillion in AUM. I highly doubt they were directly involved in such decision.
- obmelvin 6y ago
  I don't understand what their AUM has to do with it?
  - derivagral 6y ago
    I believe GP was trying to say that management of the owning company doesn't necessarily spend a great deal of time going through all the ongoing details of every business owned, compared to a company that might only have Ancestry.com as an asset. I don't think this really alleviates concerns people have though.
t-c-h 6y ago
You can be traced in many, many ways. From all the websites you visit, the accounts you have, social media posts and pictures, connections with others, camera's outside, your car, your job, whatever more. There's very little true privacy in modern urban life. Yet, while privacy issues are a point of concern among geneticists when it comes to direct-to-consumer genetic testing, the general points of caution are directed to relational and emotional issues. Many people think little of the relational consequences genetic testing can bear, where family members are implicated often unwillingly. Another point is that people often make up wrong conclusions about their results and see them as some infallible passport of who they are, while the tests are limited in what they actually can tell. Or let's say tests show you have a disposition for increased disease risk. I doubt many give it a really good thought of whether they truly want to know and live with said knowledge for the rest of their lives.
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by llsf 6y ago

csomar 6y ago

Not trying to defend blackstone but they have half a trillion in AUM. I highly doubt they were directly involved in such decision.

obmelvin 6y ago
I don't understand what their AUM has to do with it?
- derivagral 6y ago
  I believe GP was trying to say that management of the owning company doesn't necessarily spend a great deal of time going through all the ongoing details of every business owned, compared to a company that might only have Ancestry.com as an asset. I don't think this really alleviates concerns people have though.

t-c-h 6y ago

You can be traced in many, many ways. From all the websites you visit, the accounts you have, social media posts and pictures, connections with others, camera's outside, your car, your job, whatever more. There's very little true privacy in modern urban life. Yet, while privacy issues are a point of concern among geneticists when it comes to direct-to-consumer genetic testing, the general points of caution are directed to relational and emotional issues. Many people think little of the relational consequences genetic testing can bear, where family members are implicated often unwillingly. Another point is that people often make up wrong conclusions about their results and see them as some infallible passport of who they are, while the tests are limited in what they actually can tell. Or let's say tests show you have a disposition for increased disease risk. I doubt many give it a really good thought of whether they truly want to know and live with said knowledge for the rest of their lives.

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