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That's not the same risk because 23andme also has name, address, email. One risk if you have PII+genome is that a technically sophisticated entity can determin
by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
That's not the same risk because 23andme also has name, address, email.
One risk if you have PII+genome is that a technically sophisticated entity can determine if you've physically been in a location. Also with an extensive PII+genome database they could find your family, for example for blackmail purposes.
Another risk is that a health insurance provider could deny you based on potential health issues they find in your genome.
- hiatus 3y agoTechnically, even without PII an adversary could determine that you have been in a physical place, they just wouldn't know what to call you.
- dekhn 3y agoYes, but technically sophisticated entities can also use methods that require less effort. https://xkcd.com/538/ https://xkcd.com/538/
- zlg_codes 3y agoThat's your defense? You asked for actual risks and when shown real, plausible ones recede into XKCD quotes. Clearly just a spoiler.
- dekhn 3y agoWhat real, actual risks which I didn't already know about have been shown in this thread? The point is that while you can use DNA to identify people in most cases, sufficiently motivated adversaries have more effective, cheaper, lower-technology approaches that they will use first.
- necovek 3y agoLike with many things, the issue is the aggregation of data on many individuals (a database), and easy accessibility of your individual data on request (discoverability and processing). Me shouting my sensitive private details in a crowded bar is entirely different from putting them on my webpage. There's even a difference between writing them down on a napkin or shouting them out.
- zlg_codes 3y agoForget about it dude, the other guy's just trolling and hiding his criteria for 'real threat' so he can act like nobody's good enough. I guess it's representative of the demographics here. Nobody capable of conducting themselves honestly.