23andMe just sent out an email trying to trick customers into accepting a TOS change that will prevent you from suing them after they literally lost your genome ro thieves.

Do what it says in the email and email [email protected] that you do not agree with the new terms of service and opt out of arbitration.

If you have an account with them, do this right now.

Here’s an email template for what to write: https://www.patreon.com/posts/94164861

  • Mkengine@feddit.de
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    11 months ago

    If my uncle did this, how would they get my information and genome over him? I read the Wikipedia article but still don’t understand how this works.

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        11 months ago

        Okay, but they don’t know which part and the don’t even know I exist if my uncle isn’t telling them?

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          11 months ago

          They don’t, but other companies like insurance might know. And they are the ones who’s buying. They use multiple sources of data. And then they put 2 and 2 together.

          Even though it’s 25%, they will still calculate it as a risk.

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              11 months ago

              I’ll have to get the name of the specific murder porn show from my wife, but there’s one where they go into detail about how they find a suspect with DNA by finding people with a close enough match to narrow down the family tree and get super close to the actual person, if not the exact person.