news 23andMe confirms user data up for sale after online scraping spree

[Vermillion]

 

[Hurem]

I feel bad for people who fell for the “know your heritage” bullshit. Selling your data was always their priority and it was gonna make its way to people who shouldn’t have it.

[Joyride]

I took the test and it's not even accurate lol

[getBusy]

19 minutes ago, Hurem said:

Selling your data was always their priority

The company is NOT selling the data

[Hurem]

8 minutes ago, getBusy said:

The company is NOT selling the data

Not that we know of at least

[luckythisway]

4 hours ago, Hurem said:

I feel bad for people who fell for the “know your heritage” bullshit. Selling your data was always their priority and it was gonna make its way to people who shouldn’t have it.

Anything that involves giving away your DNA has red flags all around. I mean yeah I’m curious to see what this/Ancestry has to say but I’d never willingly send them my DNA in a tube 

[Navy4Life]

I would never trust a company that has a close relationship with Google to have my DNA  (I know they didn’t sell info but I’m pretty sure they do much worse with it). 

[Attitude]

My dumbass gave AncestryDNA a sample so good luck to me.

[Alyssa Edwards]

looks cute when u watch videos of people reacting to their ancestry but a 5min google search taught me that this sh*t is a scam.

[John Slayne]

i've always wanted to do it but yeah i can never get over the fact that some dodgy company might sell my data one day