It isn't yours, if you use them you signed it all over to them. They patented your DNA.
this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2025
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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
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.
So if a lab rat adds, deletes or edits a person's DNA it is no longer a 'product of nature'?
Apparently.
[...] 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?
Did you stop reading before you should have?
The monsters.
Well, that originally autocorrected to "mobsters," but I suppose that'd work in a certain context, too.
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.
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.
I’m pretty sure you’re main character in an Assassin’s Creed game.
You can't just go around accusing people of being mass murderers.
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.
I believe you and your genome become property of whomever buys the data and you'll have to go over to their house and rake their leaves for them and stuff
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.
There's a non-zero % chance that a nazi with ties to the government and unlimited money might be interested in this data... 👀
You guys know that you share half your genome with your kids and parents, so it's not even just the users' data, but also people who might not even know about this.
After the Ashkenazi data leak, I deleted my data with them. Never sharing that again.
My mom is Jewish and I'd been considering doing one of those DNA tests until that data leak happened, I was glad I hadn't done it.
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.
I did this over a year ago, requesting that they delete my shit.
I got a nice email back saying that they would do so, but would retain necessary material to comply with local laws and law enforcement obligations.
So, my best bet is they didn't delete anything. I only hope is that they don't put it on the open market.
I just passed by the settings page and requested all my data. When I receive it, I will delete the account which, according to their full privacy statement, requires them to discard my sample, delete my data AND opt me out of 23andMe Research.
Same thing that happened with NCIX's personal information data, it probably goes to the highest bidder.
Isn't that what already happened to it before?
Yes, correct, I made a typo. I fixed it now.
When the ACA gets repealed insurance comoanies can use it to preemptively deny you coverage. Then there's the ethnic cleansing of course. There will be religious people who will use it for marriage licenses or breeding permits.
you should definitely request your data to be deleted before it's too late
Never did the stupid test.
russian psyops gets quasi-dimensional