Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers
Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers
oag.ca.gov
Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers
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DNA companies: "Give us your DNA, and we'll tell you where you come from!"
Me looking at the family tree books on my shelf from both sides of my family.
"NAH! I'm good"
Fuck these DNA harvesting companies
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I feel like there’s a huge gaping hole where advice to consumers not located in California should go.
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This is a press release and not a news article though, it's absolutely not their job or place to say what people in other states or countries should do, they don't have any jurisdiction or official knowledge of processes or proceedings outside of their state
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I bought the kit through Amazon on sale. I used a fake name and a throw-away email address through a VPN when making the 23&me account and when accessing the results.
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I've refrained from using any of these genetic testing companies for obvious (to this community, at least) reasons, but I would like to know that information. Considering advances in technology, is DIYing it a reasonable thing yet?
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I'm so glad I never tried any of these DNA services. For exactly this reason.
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Why isn’t it just deleted by default. A government that actually cared about its citizens wouldn’t let the data be sold off at all.
23 and me was set up for the specific purpose to sell your genetic data to pharmaceutical companies, glaxo Kline Smith was one of their clients.( It's also the British company that Andrew witty worked for( CEO of UHG)