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There are troubling privacy issues, but it was able to tell me: "Toe Length Ratio : Likely second toe longer". I didn't even have to look down! Maybe it was a
by ks2048 2y ago
There are troubling privacy issues, but it was able to tell me: "Toe Length Ratio : Likely second toe longer". I didn't even have to look down!
Maybe it was a bad idea. But, I figured if we enter a dystopian future, evil health care companies or governments could easily get my DNA if they want to and/or simply require that information to get care. When you get blood drawn, do you see what they do with it?
Hopefully, what matters is the laws we all fight for and not whether I sent my spit to an internet company in 2022.
Anyways, will delete my data.
- abracadaniel 2y agoYou can request your data from a section in the site first if you like. Some of the downloads say they can take a few days to generate, but all were available within a day of my requests.
- xbmcuser 2y agoLooking at how the current administration is following laws and court orders I think you might have too much trust in laws
- raverbashing 2y agoThis could actually be a plot point on a dystopian sci-fi movie (identifying people by weird metrics like toe size and such)
- dehrmann 2y agoLike browser fingerprinting.
- Dibby053 2y agoLike fingerprint fingerprinting?
- 1oooqooq 2y agono. fingerprinting is like denying a kid at a carnival ride with a height check. what this thread is about is denying a kid a kindergarten spot because the dna shows their height will never get them a basketball college scholarship.
- windward 2y agoI'm very glad this wasn't productised before my in-laws were my in-laws
- nomdep 2y agoYour example doesn’t make any sense, because they could do it right now: most of the kids are never going to get a basketball college scholarship, everyone knows it, including schools, and they don’t care
- balamatom 2y agoIt's an example of a thing that doesn't make any sense. And people are made to care about things that don't actually make any sense all the time, you just gotta set up the incentives just right.
- vihren 2y agoYou might like Gattaca if you haven't seen it.
- longtimelistnr 2y agoOne of my favorite movies
- fc417fc802 2y agoThat sort of thing is already in widespread usage. For example palm geometry readers as a biometric factor to go along with a key card at a building entrance. Although in the future I imagine it's more likely to be things like arm to torso ratio or gait recognition or similar, done via machine vision.
- raverbashing 2y agoIt's different Biometric comparison is commonplace, once you give your biometric info What I'm saying is that people would be id'd by a biometric measure derived from a genetic measure (and yes of course I watched Gattaca already)
- midtake 2y ago> But, I figured if we enter a dystopian future, evil health care companies or governments could easily get my DNA if they want to and/or simply require that information to get care. Yes, because you gave it to them. Nihilism undermines any sort of resistance movement against evil.
- brikym 2y agoNo he didn't but his overly curious aunt Janice gave it to them.
- harvey9 2y agoHe really did - the post indicates he got an analysis back from 23andme.
- vintermann 2y agoI think it's a mistake to think that the tyrannical governments of the future will be sophisticated. The way the trend is going, they will be ever more banal. They're not going to target a virus for you, they're going to knock down your door, shout at you, lock you up or shoot you. They likely won't even bother with having chatgpt write up a pretext for it. That doesn't mean we can do nothing, but it means withholding information won't matter as much as some people think.
- johnnyanmac 2y agoThere's not much resistance to someone wanting your DNA. It's so trivial to get that you'd basically need to become a hermit to try and prevent it. A hermit that shaves themselves and burns their trash, one that lives with gloves on dyrung every waking hour and disinfects their chair and bed daily. It's not really something the mass population can physically prevent from a determined actor. Like data, you need to regulate it instead of take excessive preventative measures.
- jajko 2y agoThis is a wrong mindset. Just because its technically possible to obtain DNA we should all give it up easily since its already a lost cause? Its one thing if you are specifically targeted for whatever reasons, then yes one is screwed. Another is to have all info and weaknesses automatically available to 'the man' or more 'the men', no need to make things too easy for them and jump ahead in queue.
- arduanika 2y ago> I didn't even have to look down! Hilarious, I love it. Next you're gonna say they told you that you'll probably die of something that you can forestall a bit with good diet and exercise.
- ks2048 2y agoLooking at my "Reports Summary", it's all mundane stuff like the toe thing I mentioned. It seems all the medically relevant stuff require premium subscription.
- k__ 2y agoThey told me I have an average to lower risk for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. All I wanted to know, since my grandpa died of Parkinson's.
- 1oooqooq 2y agoyou could have asked you primary care doctor for a test, instead of paying a company for the privilege of creating a dna map to sell to law enforcement.
- lotsofpulp 2y ago23andme sells this for a set price, advertised on their website. A clinic usually asks you to sign a form that says you are responsible for paying whatever they and an unaffiliated laboratory end up saying you owe. Minimum being $250, and maximum being unknown.
- johnnyanmac 2y agoThat may sadly be more expensive in the US. Even if you're insured, the copay + coinsurance may still cost you more out of pocket for such tests, depending on the specialists needed.