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A comment on Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Consumer DNA. Parent comment

Re:Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Cons... by seydor on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @04:57AM (#38081934)
sue the first two, get $$$. This is textbook discrimination

i avoid dictator governments , which do it anyway already, just based on phenotype

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Re:Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Cons... by squigz on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @05:32AM (#38082197)
Don't wanna live in a dictatorship? Just avoid it, simple!
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Re:Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Cons... by lopis on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @05:50AM (#38082337)
> sue the first two, get $$$. This is textbook discrimination

Ah but they did no wrong! They just licensed the AI du jur that functions pretty much like a black box, but just so happens to feed on multiple sources of data from dozens of data brokers. One of those brokers aggregates data from other brokers, including DNA data from DNA services.

Meanwhile, all the recruiter saw was "37% match" before reading your resume and moved on.

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Re:Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Cons... by ekianjo on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @06:50AM (#38082812)
> i avoid dictator governments

If you are born in one you cannot really escape thats kind of a big design feature you know

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