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23andMe came out when I was in high school, and one of my science teachers spent an entire class period telling us how bad an idea it would be to ever use their
by RheingoldRiver 3y ago
23andMe came out when I was in high school, and one of my science teachers spent an entire class period telling us how bad an idea it would be to ever use their service. Probably the most valuable lecture I ever had tbh, I've never even considered going near it as a result.
Makes me think that "data privacy" should be added into schools' mandatory health class requirements or something. Though most likely any prescribed curriculum would have been lobbied to death & not actually teach valuable information.
- therealdrag0 3y agoWhy is the lecture so valuable? Why was another commenters biggest regret using 23andme? (Talk about first world problems). What is private about dna?
- samtho 3y agoNothing, you abandon many viable samples of it wherever you go. This relates to the biggest problem with biometrics: it represents an effectively static attribute about an individual. It cannot be reset and therefore we place this enormous responsibility on the reading mechanism and pipeline to the authentication process to attest that the human using it is doing so with consent.