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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don’t pay a company to take and do what they please with your DNA. I can’t fathom how many people willingly and happily give private companies the most private of personal data. You have no idea if or when (and let’s be honest, when is  the likeliest) your personal genome data will be leaked or hacked or sold to a third party. [/quote]

Who cares? What are they going to do with it? [/quote]

NP. Sell it to pharmaceutical companies, for one. They can use it to develop drugs for orphan diseases (good) and engage in price gouging à la pharma bro (bad), or at the worst, develop medications that do evil, like an “anti-gay” therapeutic or a medication that erases efficacy of birth control or the morning after pill. You have no say whether your personal information is sold or leaked or stolen and used for good or for bad.[/quote]

It could also be used to deny your grandchildren health insurance or charge them more based on info found.  You are making the decision to do it for your descendants and relatives.[/quote]

THIS. Some of the genealogy companies are already expanding into drug development or partnering directly with pharmaceutical companies to develop specific drugs. One fear is they will amalgamate all of this DNA data that people keep giving them (paying to give them!) which will enable them to develop drugs that one day me only be available to people who need then only if those people will sign away their genome data rights to the company in order to be tracked and be forced to purchase drugs from that company that wants to “own” their data. [/quote]

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