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Re:California AG Rob Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert fo... by guiambros on Saturday March 22, 2025 @04:41PM (#43448456)
With all due respect, that's baseless FUD.

Call me naive, but I believe insurance companies have more concrete battles to fight (e.g. confirmed preexisting conditions), than getting in a legal quagmire with insurees just because "you have 2.7% risk of having early onset of X, instead of the 1.35% of the average population".

I understand the allure of painting everything with dystopian Orwellian colors and "but-what-if-they-do" thing, but the fact that 23andme is going bankrupt and others are not much better (Ancestry was acquired by a PE firm in 2020, and is increasingly pivoting away from DNA) is a great indicator that DNA data is commercially worthless.

If anything, the biggest risk is your data being used for ads. I bet some pharma companies would love to use your DNA data to enhance their 1PD propensity models.

Re:California AG Rob Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert fo... by Rodeoclash on Saturday March 22, 2025 @05:01PM (#43448597)
Governments often round people up based on some criteria. Unless something has changed that I don't know about, I don't see why this won't happen again.
Re:California AG Rob Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert fo... by amanaplanacanal on Saturday March 22, 2025 @09:32PM (#43450241)
If that happens with your government, your best option is to be somewhere else.
Re:California AG Rob Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert fo... by mafuy on Saturday March 22, 2025 @05:15PM (#43448691)
Re:California AG Rob Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert fo... by washadjeffmad on Saturday March 22, 2025 @08:59PM (#43450053)
That's quite a failure of creativity. Like Google with their "I'm not touching you" profiling by metadata, you don't have to identify an individual to be able to target them.

There's also an incredible asymmetry of information in these fields and industries. What makes you think you know enough to say that protected data isn't being laundered, legally or illegally, through private companies around the globe to inform the very opaque pricing of medical services and insurance in the US?