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Re:Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Cons... by seydor on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @04:51AM (#38081869)
We already did these things, we discriminated against women, racial minorities, skin colors, and even more, religious minorities etc. We already have laws against these things, we never asked people to hide the color of their skin.

What's problematic right now is that only law enforcment has unrestricted access to the dna data. I actually want such data to be open source.

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Re:Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Cons... by RHSeeger on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @07:30AM (#38083163)
> we never asked people to hide the color of their skin

We have a bunch of regulations around "you can't even ask the person about that", specifically because companies cannot be trusted not to discriminate based on it.

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