23andMe lays off 100 people as DNA test sales decline

Re:23andMe lays off 100 people as DNA test sales decline by phkahler on Thursday January 23, 2020 @08:37PM (#22134535)

>> date of birth, and sex

That's enough to identify people in some zipcodes.

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Re:23andMe lays off 100 people as DNA test sales decline by travisjungroth on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:20AM (#22135606)

Most people in most zip codes. 70 years * 365 days * 2 sexes = 51,100. The average zip code has about 10,000. Never thought of this before.

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Re:23andMe lays off 100 people as DNA test sales decline by zimpenfish on Friday January 24, 2020 @07:37AM (#22137535)

John D Cook did a couple of good blog posts on this

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Re:23andMe lays off 100 people as DNA test sales decline by jjeaff on Thursday January 23, 2020 @10:02PM (#22135009)

I'm pretty sure I didn't give them my birthdate. I also didn't give them my full name. If birthdate is required, I would have given a fake one.

I don't see any reason to give them your exact birthdate.

They could obviously dig into the billing data and get my info, but at least it's not right there together.

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