23andMe provides checkboxes for everything you could want to change. Even better than checkboxes on a paper form, these are consents you can give / retract at any time:

- https://you.23andme.com/user/edit/privacy/

- https://you.23andme.com/user/edit/research/

- https://you.23andme.com/user/edit/records/

A shame your dad can’t opt out. Or your mom. Or their siblings and their children. And so forth.

You can go to the settings and opt out of their Research consent document now, which also explains how the data is used. I think they 've been pretty clear about how they plan to use the data of existing customers.

There is also the danger of people having a false sense of privacy by opting out of 1 or 2 genetic tests. This is shared information between relatives and the population at large, not exactly top secret data. The degrees of separation between you and me are 2-3 , so it s very easy to identify people indirectly , hence why it was possible to solve decades-old crimes.

I think our genetic information is less private than the contents of our brains, in general.

Meh, I sent them my spit with a fake name and a temp address at the UPS Store.