[HN Gopher] What happens to DNA data of millions as 23andMe file...
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What happens to DNA data of millions as 23andMe files bankruptcy?
Author : ajdude
Score : 16 points
Date : 2025-03-27 19:39 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| NullPrefix wrote:
| What kind of questions is this? It will be sold to the highest
| bidder to cover debts of 23andMe
| nomel wrote:
| Who it's transferred to is a subset of "what happens". That
| transfer includes legally binding agreements. How those are
| respected, and the consent involved for those changing, is more
| on the "what happens" side.
| mindslight wrote:
| It goes to the highest bidder. This is whomever can extract the
| most value from it, likely because they are the least constrained
| by the paltry genetic privacy laws we do have. This means it is
| likely to go to Muskov to use in support of his project to
| cleanse the surplus population, just as how he has already been
| employing the much more expensive Twitter.
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| The main thing I've got to say to the "nothing to hide" folks is
| "very slowly, then all at once".
| madethisnow wrote:
| i'm sure you have evidence for this
| mindslight wrote:
| I laid out a chain of easily-verifiable facts and
| straightforward heuristics to describe one likely outcome.
| It's not set in stone of course - insurance companies could
| end up seeing more value in the data for purposes of price
| discrimination. Or is my prediction so spot on you think I
| must be a time traveler that knows exactly what happened?
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