Sounds like a good thing to me
Which part sounds good? At it's most simplest, the part where you are not just frittering away your own privacy, but also of those related to you ─ in order to help a Google spin-off based on nepotism, should be reason enough to remain wary ─ until at least some semblance of how to deal with bad practices or egregious cases, is offered by lawmakers on this subject.
Tiffany C. Li, a privacy expert and resident fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, told Tom's Guide. "You are paying to help the company make money with your data"
When you give your DNA data to companies like Ancestry.com or 23andMe, you give up not only your own genetic privacy, but that of your entire family
Nevertheless, the above-mentioned debate is moot, especially when you consider the original point(s) made in the article, with regards to the vagaries of explicitly sharing your genetic data without first analysing the implications.
I don't really know what the alternative is here...
US health insurance costs are up 20% since last year.
By that logic, Insulin would be dirt cheap today, right?
Hint: it is not.
One kind of insulin can be bought for ~$25 at Walmart.
Now, this means that you have to monitor you sugar levels, have a restrictive diet, etc. All things that are very restrictive but better than dying that people did when insulin treatment was first being developed.
Now we have newer, reformulated insulin that allows for a more permissive lifestyle. That is expensive.
Should the newer stuff be cheaper? It certainly allows for a greater QOL and took time and money to research.