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Re:California AG Rob Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert fo... by wenc on Saturday March 22, 2025 @03:09PM (#43447847)
I made an informed decision when I signed up.

It's SNP genotyping, which realistically other than telling your ancestry and few health conditions, isn't that predictive of most health conditions. Genotyping only captures a small percentage of total genetic information (it's not a full sequence -- still too expensive for what I paid), and thus the data was actually very limited, so the risk was realistically very small.

Privacy is about risk-reward -- rather than applying the preventative principle to everything (which is overly conservative), we make trade offs in life.

Re:California AG Rob Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert fo... by Yeul on Saturday March 22, 2025 @04:29PM (#43448397)
You cannot predict technology though.
Re:California AG Rob Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert fo... by dkh on Saturday March 22, 2025 @05:06PM (#43448631)
Meaning what?
Re:California AG Rob Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert fo... by SalmoShalazar on Saturday March 22, 2025 @07:09PM (#43449426)
You can get pretty far through imputation. SNPs can reveal plenty about the rest of your genome even if it hasn’t been directly sequenced. Reference populations and linkage disequilibrium go a long way.
Re:California AG Rob Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert fo... by derbOac on Saturday March 22, 2025 @07:22PM (#43449507)
Meh. I do research in this space and they've sucked it dry, even given everything you're saying.

Progress is going to be elsewhere, like rare variants etc.

Re:California AG Rob Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert fo... by catp on Friday March 28, 2025 @04:45PM (#43509663)
Read depth / structural variants as well.