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Re:Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Cons... by shunyaekam on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @07:48AM (#38083323)
What is the big issue? Is the data not anonymized?
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Re:Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Cons... by lacrimacida on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @08:34AM (#38083807)
Until they have a leak or a breach… Don’t trust these companies blindly..
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Re:Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Cons... by leotravis10 on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @03:07PM (#38089850)
The data is never truly "anonymized" since companies can easily de-anonymize data in minutes if not seconds as proven time and time again.
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Re:Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Cons... by shunyaekam on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @05:15PM (#38091475)
Sure but what exactly is a malicious scenario in this case? That they'd use this data to probe which drug to do R&D on?

If this was an insurance company I wouldn't have asked this question.

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