23andme is being accused of selling customers DNA.

[Gibiin-Udug]

I sent my DNA and I never got results back and it's been close to 2 years now. What if they sold my DNA

• 23andme clients send in saliva samples for genetic testing by scientists
• The company has allegedly sold clients' data after to 'big pharma' firm GSK

• Expert has 'concern' for what companies would do with personal information

For many it is simply a novel way to find out more about the ancestors.

But a neuroscientist has raised concerns over popular DNA-testing sites, warning firms are selling off customers' personal data to third parties.

Dr Hannah Critchlow said data gathered by companies charging up to £149 for ancestry tests could potentially be 'manipulated' before being sold on.

And she flagged up one firm in particular, 23andme, which last year sold on clients' DNA data to a large pharmaceutical company.

Addressing an audience at the Hay Festival, Dr Critchlow, from the University of Cambridge, said: 'Really worryingly, you might have heard of a company called 23andme where people pay to give their DNA away to a company and it will sequence that DNA.

'Then it might make some very vague biological predictions. What this company has done very recently is it has gone on and sold all your DNA data to a pharmaceutical company.'

She said the pharmaceutical firm had 'obviously paid quite a lot of money for this', adding that many 'positive things' could spring from data being sold on.

'You can get more personalised medicine from it. Hopefully you'll be able to find new treatments for people that might have been suffering otherwise because there was no tailored treatment available to them,' she said.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...A-data-pharmaceutical-companies-GSK-deal.html

 

[Apollo]

They only sell the data of those who answered health surveys you see on that site. Like ''are you a morning or evening person?'', ''are you allergic to'' etc etc.

I'm pretty sure those pharmaceutical companies have strong cyber-security and it will never be leaked to non-professionals. So I don't see the big deal, it will only advance the pharmaceutical industry and help create better medicine.

 

[Libaaxseendheer]

Its for the better. More research is all it will be good for. Unless you believe they have more sinister intentions

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[Lady Whistledown]

That pharmaceutical company is big in Somalia.

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[AussieHustler]

If one of your relatives has committed a serious crime and yet not caught, your dna testing might lead detectives to him like the East Area Rapist/Golden State Killer, a policeman who evaded the law for 4 decades. He was caught through his nephew's DNA testing on a commercial company “via an open source called GedMatch where people can share their dna results". See how the cops tricked users & administrators. They might be going through the results posted here, who knows.

 

[CaliTedesse]

I already shared this they made BIG BUCKs and still make BIG BUCKs on selling valuable data, this is nothing new.

 

[4head]

If one of your relatives has committed a serious crime and yet not caught, your dna testing might lead detectives to him like the East Area Rapist/Golden State Killer, a policeman who evaded the law for 4 decades. He was caught through his nephew's DNA testing on a commercial company “via an open source called GedMatch where people can share their dna results". See how the cops tricked users & administrators. They might be going through the results posted here, who knows.

It's a cool way to caught up criminals though! Quite scary but still cool! I wouldn't give my DNA, who knows, I might change in the future and become a pirate. Just like the brother Bakhrad Abdi!

 

[Apollo]

It's a cool way to caught up criminals though! Quite scary but still cool! I wouldn't give my DNA, who knows, I might change in the future and become a pirate. Just like the brother Bakhrad Abdi!

They can't do anything with your DNA. They can't clone you. They only scan a fraction of the genome, not the entire thing.

So much paranoia for nothing.

Amazon, Google Inc., and Facebook have way more detailed info on you than you think yet people use it.

 

[VixR]

They can't do anything with your DNA. They can't clone you. They only scan a fraction of the genome, not the entire thing.

So much paranoia for nothing.

Amazon, Google Inc., and Facebook have way more detailed info on you than you think yet people use it.

Especially Google.