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Cool, I'm glad that brought you joy. I wish they gave both of us a check box at the bottom of my spit test to opt in and everyone's happy. But they know at leas

• michaeljohansen 5y ago
  23andMe provides checkboxes for everything you could want to change. Even better than checkboxes on a paper form, these are consents you can give / retract at any time: - https://you.23andme.com/user/edit/privacy/ https://you.23andme.com/user/edit/privacy/ - https://you.23andme.com/user/edit/research/ https://you.23andme.com/user/edit/research/ - https://you.23andme.com/user/edit/records/ https://you.23andme.com/user/edit/records/
  • falcolas 5y ago
    A shame your dad can’t opt out. Or your mom. Or their siblings and their children. And so forth.
• cblconfederate 5y ago
  You can go to the settings and opt out of their Research consent document now, which also explains how the data is used. I think they 've been pretty clear about how they plan to use the data of existing customers. There is also the danger of people having a false sense of privacy by opting out of 1 or 2 genetic tests. This is shared information between relatives and the population at large, not exactly top secret data. The degrees of separation between you and me are 2-3 , so it s very easy to identify people indirectly , hence why it was possible to solve decades-old crimes. I think our genetic information is less private than the contents of our brains, in general.
  • TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
    Meh, I sent them my spit with a fake name and a temp address at the UPS Store.