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Re:23andMe raises $50M, cuts price to $99, sets goal of 1M g... by TazeTSchnitzel on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @03:21PM (#4906594)
>23andMe introduced relative finder not long ago. I hadn't logged on in over 2 years after I did it with a groupon promo, but I had a public profile with my name and city.

That's scary. Did you explicitly consent to that? It sounds like you didn't...

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Re:23andMe raises $50M, cuts price to $99, sets goal of 1M g... by driverdan on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @03:50PM (#4906723)
Yes, you have to consent.
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Re:23andMe raises $50M, cuts price to $99, sets goal of 1M g... by TazeTSchnitzel on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @03:54PM (#4906741)
Oh, thank goodness for that.
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Re:23andMe raises $50M, cuts price to $99, sets goal of 1M g... by JackWebbHeller on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @04:26PM (#4906931)
Only on Hacker News would the top reply to a comment about a person discovering their father was not their biological father be about privacy and opt-ins...
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Re:23andMe raises $50M, cuts price to $99, sets goal of 1M g... by TazeTSchnitzel on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @04:29PM (#4906945)
So we shouldn't care about privacy here? That's pretty serious if it was how I thought.
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Re:23andMe raises $50M, cuts price to $99, sets goal of 1M g... by chad_oliver on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @05:28PM (#4907293)
No, he's merely saying that we are more privacy-conscious than the average group of people. I don't think he was claiming that was good or bad, just abnormal.
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Re:23andMe raises $50M, cuts price to $99, sets goal of 1M g... by javert on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @06:05PM (#4907514)
I read it as "Only on hacker news [insert good thing here]", and I agree with that sentiment, whether it was the intent or not. I think people caring a lot about privacy and issues like that is one reason I really like this place.
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Re:23andMe raises $50M, cuts price to $99, sets goal of 1M g... by Florin_Andrei on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @07:01PM (#4907758)
No, he's merely alluding to differences between people-oriented and systems-oriented folks.
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