23andMe Sold Access to Your DNA Library to Big Pharma
If only some of us had seen this coming and warned people… oh, wait…
#SurveillanceCapitalism HT @hjdraper8
@aral in my case, i decided i just didn’t care ): data fatalism?
@aral "the genetic information is going to be used for “research and development of innovative new medicines and potential cures.”"
What exactly is wrong with that?
@cristhyano @aral what else pharmaceutical company is going to do with it?
@aral see i hate this but also. i have a kinda rare condition (EDS) caused by probably-genetics (not known for sure atm) and like. there's no easy way to like. donate your code to science or whatever. but this would do that to some extent. >.> but also i don't want to support companies like this <.<