[daave]

Seems unlikely to be a sustainable business.

For GEDMatch, Ancestry.com, 23andMe, etc, most of the value comes from being able to aggregate many people's data. If they had to delete it after collecting, they'd have to charge a lot more, and there's just no market for that.

Perhaps they could anonymize the data (at least, purge foreign key references to account/billing info) after 6 months, but not delete it.

[conception]

It’s not unstable in anyway. What he’s describing is a lab. Lots of labs will do exactly what he wants.

[0xy]

Much like you can't anonymize browsing history data, email metadata or financial transactions -- I suspect DNA information also cannot be satisfactorily anonymized.

"Anonymized data" is a marketing term.

[HeWhoLurksLate]

Was going to say this as well- I highly doubt it's possible to anonymize DNA and still have useful data.

'Anonymized Data' is a misnomer.

[ShroudedNight]

This makes me wonder if there would be some use in zero knowledge protocols that use a person's DNA information for the secret.