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It isn’t yours, if you use them you signed it all over to them. They patented your DNA.
I’m hoping in 500 years, my DNA sequence is found on a perfectly preserved micro SD card and my clone gets to meet President Camacho and take on Beef Supreme and the Dildozer on Monday Night Rehabilitation.
That’s the optimistic timeline, we still have to actually get there first.
I am sure you can come with what a pessimistic timeline would look like.
I don’t have to, I watched Planet of the Apes
The monsters.
Well, that originally autocorrected to “mobsters,” but I suppose that’d work in a certain context, too.
They patented your DNA.
You can’t patent DNA… They can sell it though, with a simple TOS update (if they even need to).
For those too lazy to click through:
However, on June 13, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in the Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc, that human genes cannot be patented because DNA is a “product of nature.” All gene patents were invalidated with this ruling. However, the ruling did not prohibit the patenting of DNA that is manipulated (i.e., no longer a product of nature) or processes for identifying DNA sequences.
[…] human genes cannot be patented because DNA is a “product of nature.” All gene patents were invalidated with this ruling.
did you paste the link to admit you were wrong?
That’s not true in the slightest. I agree with the fuck 23&me sentiment but you don’t have to make things up to criticize them.
https://geneticspolicy.nccrcg.org/policy-area/gene-patents/
tl;dr you’re mistaken
did you not read your link?
Many people got lured into this mistake without properly understanding the risk.
Now we know the risk.
Deny the parasite all data possible going forward.
Yeah, I did mine like 15 years ago around when they first started accepting international orders (At the time they didn’t even have labs in the UK and they paid to TNT overnight ship my spit to America)
Yeah once I realize the mistake I told them to delete it. Not sure if they ever did.
This eventually.
That is a great film that I should watch again … and so should everyone
Absolutely agree. This is one of my favorites.
One of my all time favorites.
Shit, they’re gonna want my DNA. I’m 1/8th Cherokee and I’m descended from Napoleon, Julius Caesar, Christopher Columbus, Abraham Lincoln, every signatory of the magna carta, Jesus, and the Mayflower. The actual ship. Don’t ask.
Thank you 23andme for telling me just how goddamn special I am simply for being born, now I’m not under any pressure to ever accomplish anything.
There’s a non-zero % chance that a nazi with ties to the government and unlimited money might be interested in this data… 👀
I never did a DNA test but both my parents did… How screwed am I?
If both your parents did a DNA test with the same company, and you are their child and not the result of a liaison with the milkman, you are 100% screwed.
If you are the product of a liaison with the milkman and the milkman didn’t do a DNA test with the same company, you’re 50% screwed.
If you were adopted, then there will be no impact from the DNA test, but if your parents didn’t tell you, they’re 100% screwed. (Assuming that your birth parents didn’t have a DNA test.)
In other words, there’s a non-zero chance that you’re screwed.
You should be fine, unless you’re planning on a life of crime.
Or if you’re a minority who could be framed for a crime.
You should be fine to not have a phone PIN, unless you’re planning on a life of crime.
After the Ashkenazi data leak, I deleted my data with them. Never sharing that again.
russian psyops gets quasi-dimensional
