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> people who were fully responsible... We're talking about people who 'friended' others on 23andme, right? How is that responsible user behavior? I had an acco
by brvsft 3y ago
> people who were fully responsible...
We're talking about people who 'friended' others on 23andme, right? How is that responsible user behavior? I had an account with 23andme before I forced them to delete my data, which was not that difficult to do.
One of the things I remember was getting friend invites from random people who were distant cousins, and while I suppose that might be fun conceptually, I never did it because I didn't know any of these people. In what world does a "responsible" user who cares about their privacy add access to personal information, on a website that profiles your DNA, to people who are blood-related but still total strangers? I would call that highly irresponsible, personally. But that's just me, an idiot who avoided all of this by deleting my 23andme account half a decade ago.
- esrauch 3y agoThere's no way that 14k accounts has 7 million friends actively accepted, that would be 500 friends on average. It must be that they reveal info about you to other people who have a genetic match and it was heavily scrapable with the stolen credentials.