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"To date, there is no way to order the service completely anonymously. That said, if you have a trusted friend or relative who would be willing to order a kit
by catshirt 16y ago
"To date, there is no way to order the service completely anonymously. That said, if you have a trusted friend or relative who would be willing to order a kit for you, his or her address and credit card would be tied to the account, rather than your own, and there would be no way to connect it to you."
even if you've ordered under your own name, doesn't this suggest you could just maintain plausible deniability? surely a DNA test can connect it to you- but that would nullify the "john doe" tactic as well, no?
- seldo 16y ago23andMe make clear that they do not assume that the genetic material belongs to you just because you are the account holder -- you can submit several samples under different names for family members, for instance. It seems the simplest step to prevent 23AndMe being forced to give up your genetic data at some future dystopic point has already been taken: they already have no way of knowing if it's actually your data. You can take anyone's DNA and call it yours, or give anyone else's name to your own DNA.
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