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by manimino 1204 days ago
I have used Nebula. Did a group buy of the kits with several friends to obfuscate shipping address. Signed up via a protonmail address, and accessed the site only through VPN. Then deleted my data after downloading all of it.

I believe it would be very difficult to tie my identity to my genome because of these steps.

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> I believe it would be very difficult to tie my identity to my genome because of these steps.

That probably depends on the closest relatively of yours that they have in their database.

If you only have one sibling and they're in the database, you're probably boned no matter the precautions you take.