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Re:Entire Independent Board of Directors of 23andMe Resigns by umanwizard on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @09:52PM (#41574920)
Why not? What practical harm is caused to you by other people knowing your DNA?
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Re:Entire Independent Board of Directors of 23andMe Resigns by optymizer on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @10:00PM (#41574954)
Now or in the future?
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Re:Entire Independent Board of Directors of 23andMe Resigns by philodeon on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @10:04PM (#41574978)
Book recommendation for you: “IBM And The Holocaust” by Edwin Black.

If IBM (then known as Hollerith) could do that much damage with German census data on punchcards…

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Re:Entire Independent Board of Directors of 23andMe Resigns by freedomben on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @11:59AM (#41581543)
> Mankind barely noticed when the concept of massively organized information quietly emerged to become a means of social control, a weapon of war, and a roadmap for group destruction.

From IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black.

Imagine the "massively organized information" that will be available to people in power in the future. It doesn't have to be a genocide for it to be useful to them. People in power today are fully on board with "social control" and it's so uncontroversial that they talk about it openly.

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Re:Entire Independent Board of Directors of 23andMe Resigns by syndicatedjelly on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @12:43PM (#41582188)
Comments like this are why schools should make liberal arts education mandatory again in the STEM curriculum
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