Post 1992446 by besserwisser@chaos.social
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(DIR) Post #1990790 by pea@fuckonthefirst.date
2018-12-14T19:51:30.167985Z
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i'm gonna be pissed if any of my relatives do that shit where they give their dna to some company to get their ancestry info or whatever, which the company is clearly doing purely out of the good of their own hearts
(DIR) Post #1990799 by pea@fuckonthefirst.date
2018-12-14T19:52:23.154123Z
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my mum was just talking about that and NAHcut that shit off at the root, that affects me
(DIR) Post #1990809 by pea@fuckonthefirst.date
2018-12-14T19:53:10.822932Z
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i'm not gonna have my insurance premiums double for the rest of my life because it turns out your DNA is predisposed to something or another and i'm your kid
(DIR) Post #1990816 by pea@fuckonthefirst.date
2018-12-14T19:53:44.421223Z
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idk if that's legal now but we all know it's gonna be because this is america and that's where things are going
(DIR) Post #1990850 by zeta@pleroma.soykaf.com
2018-12-14T19:55:27.012683Z
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@pea i mean it's probably not only insurance that's going to be affected, stuff like work, dating, etc will probably use that metadata too
(DIR) Post #1990862 by pea@fuckonthefirst.date
2018-12-14T19:56:00.005741Z
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@zeta and probably if you manage to escape it (god knows how) people wont hire you because they don't have enough info or something
(DIR) Post #1990876 by TMWReviews@mastodon.social
2018-12-14T19:54:59Z
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@pea Probably isn't, but while I can't speak for the US, it sure as hell doesn't matter in the UK, where you're not actually obliged to give your *real* answer to the question "Why was I turned down for this position?"
(DIR) Post #1990877 by TMWReviews@mastodon.social
2018-12-14T19:56:25Z
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@pea (And, living in a relatively conservative area, with epilepsy (primary trigger: Digital screens), I highly suspect the two biggest offenders are "Public Leftie" and "H&S says we can't risk him using our tills because of the once in three months (average) Epilepsy Mambo he does" 😬 )
(DIR) Post #1990884 by pea@fuckonthefirst.date
2018-12-14T19:57:05.060567Z
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@zeta miss me with that shit i'm gonna go live on a commune or something
(DIR) Post #1990891 by zeta@pleroma.soykaf.com
2018-12-14T19:57:30.988706Z
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@pea isn't that sort of a thing with social media right now? I haven't personally experience it but I feel like someone not on twitter/fb/whatever has lesser chances to get hired than say someone who does have those
(DIR) Post #1990901 by pea@fuckonthefirst.date
2018-12-14T19:57:53.995091Z
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@zeta yeah i'm almost certain this is true
(DIR) Post #1990905 by pea@fuckonthefirst.date
2018-12-14T19:58:10.371756Z
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@zeta which, i mean, companies can go fuck themselves, i'm still not making one, i'll just starve
(DIR) Post #1990927 by zeta@pleroma.soykaf.com
2018-12-14T19:58:47.843569Z
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@pea I mean I have a twitter, I just never use it, lol
(DIR) Post #1990938 by pea@fuckonthefirst.date
2018-12-14T19:59:15.211091Z
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@zeta i think i actually have one too but i've just not deleted it yet
(DIR) Post #1992213 by besserwisser@chaos.social
2018-12-14T21:13:09Z
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@pea well, no, they also take your money
(DIR) Post #1992395 by pea@fuckonthefirst.date
2018-12-14T21:23:29.258563Z
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@besserwisser the most well known ones offer this kind of service at an increasingly low price
(DIR) Post #1992414 by besserwisser@chaos.social
2018-12-14T21:25:05Z
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@pea their costs are going down since the tech is getting better, i doubt them selling your information has much to do with that, they probably did that from the start
(DIR) Post #1992431 by pea@fuckonthefirst.date
2018-12-14T21:26:18.657950Z
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@besserwisser i agree they did it from the start, but the data was more the point than the income from actually selling the tests I'd argue
(DIR) Post #1992446 by besserwisser@chaos.social
2018-12-14T21:27:21Z
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@pea the cheaper it gets, the larger the percentage of their earnings from data selling gets