[whywhywouldyou]

This is hilarious, and completely absolves everyone from bad decision making like this. My immediate reaction to 23andme was "there's no way in hell I'm sending something as private and personal as my DNA to a private company".

Why? Because there's no telling what happens to it. It's a failure of judgement to believe that just because a company is reputable today that it will be reputable tomorrow. Companies change owners, they change board members, they get bought and sold. And _hacked_.

So let's stop this nonsense of giving everyone a free pass because it was a "solid, reputable company". Maybe we can give grandma a pass, but someone on a technically minded forum such as HN should know better.

[3seashells]

Good thing it's not even a personal decision to make.. your brother, sister, mother, father, can make that decision for you..

[mopenstein]

Paranoid me can imagine a situation where some political enemy needs eliminated and a fall guy needs found. Sprinkle a little 23andme acquired DNA on the scene and some random citizen gets convicted.

[kelipso]

Lab grown meat is reality now, so it's not too far off from the possible.