No one could have predicted this. /s

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    As curious as I was about my own ancestry, this is exactly why I never did it myself. Not that it matters, though. If any of your close relatives do it they’ll have a near match for you as well.

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      Same! My gf begged me to do it. She made me feel like an asshole for not doing it. Called me crazy to think anything would happen. Well here we are!

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        Apparently you can actually do it through the company that 23 and ME contracts. And that company has way better privacy policy.

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      I did it out of curiosity as well, not on 23andme though. Since I wanted to finish my grandfather’s history tree after his passing. He told me a lot about missing family ties because of two world wars Etc… the DNA data helped a lot.

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    “Your data remains protected. The Chapter 11 filing does not change how we store, manage, or protect customer data. Our users’ privacy and data are important considerations in any transaction, and we remain committed to our users’ privacy and to being transparent with our customers about how their data is managed.”

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      Scummy misdirection

      It’s technically true and they say it to calm users but what they’re not communicating is that the buyer does not have to guarantee the same protections

      They’re “important considerations” but they have no leverage whatsoever. They’ve mismanaged the fuck out of this company and have been desperate for buyers. Now they are in a position of potentially selling to the highest bidder

      Coincidentally my parents used their service. I’m logging into their accounts to delete things. Last week when I logged in (assuming this was coming) to request copies of their records the site was snappy and responsive. Today when I log in to actually request deletion of their sample it is abysmally slow. I’m sure it’s getting hammered but I’m also sure they will put up whatever roadblocks they can as they need those samples preserved, that is their value

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    When they sell the shop to the highest bidder, they will probably include the backups from the last few months, before people started “deleting” their profiles.

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      One of the rules of creating a good database is to never delete any data.

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    Well, they don’t actually sequence your genome, afaik its a SNPchip type of thing, so only some select polymorphisms, probably not much useful data, especially if the stolen data was already processed results.

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      If you were checked for hereditary diseases (you were, as a part of this) and then actually develop any of those diseases later in life, insurance now has a surefire way to tell you to go kick rocks and die.

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        For now, as of this moment, that’s not likely the case for the vast majority of folks in the U.S. There are no guarantees that will be true in the future, or even 8 minutes from now. (Which, I note, is also in the future, but it establishes the scale of my expectations for the collapse of pro-social mores in the U.S.) No word on folks who have broken healthcare systems in other parts of the world, however.

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    I did the thing because I wanted to learn more about my ancestry and not only was it ridiculously expensive I didn’t even learn anything about my ancestry.

    My grandmother did one through Ancestry a few years back and found out her father wasn’t actually her father

    • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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      Such applications – trying to find and connect with a population you are related to – require that participants give up a certain amount of privacy. It’s the nature of the thing.

      Wanted to find out about my matriarchal line like 15 years ago. To this day, not a single hit, but dozens and dozens of relatives on my patriarchal line. So weird.

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    I wish we could get this but as a proper public service. Maybe it’d help people contextualize themselves as connected to everyone else.

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    There literally was never a valid reason to use this service. Knowledge about possibility of my great x 30 grandmother being raped by a Mongol raider is not even a fun fact to say at parties.