There is nothing "intimate" about your DNA, especially not the SNP form of it they store. You literally leave it everywhere you go.
You can tell it's worthless because the company is bankrupt!
You can tell it's worthless because the company is bankrupt!
Wow there. There's plenty intimate about your DNA and all the stuff in it that some shitty insurance company, for example, could use to justify screwing you. And the other obvious thing: sure you leave it all over the place, but generally, nobody follows you specifically around to vacuum it up for analysis and ID-tagged categorization. Having it handy in the databases of 23&Me, tied directly to you as a specific person and sold to third parties on the other hand....
No there isn't. The reason 23AndMe is bankrupt is /that stuff isn't real/ and it doesn't work.
If you've ever actually gotten life insurance though, you'll remember they have you do a nurse visit with a blood draw first. That gives them far more information about you than your SNPs.
This specific scenario is illegal though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_Information_Nondiscrim...
> And the other obvious thing: sure you leave it all over the place, but generally, nobody follows you specifically around to vacuum it up for analysis and ID-tagged categorization.
There's no "analysis" or "categorization" you can do that's real, because correlation isn't causation. Again, that's literally why they're bankrupt.
23AndMe tried to work around this by having people do a lot of health research for free by taking thousands of surveys to provide actually useful data points, but even with that additional info it didn't produce anything.