[nylonstrung]

This seems pretty far fetched.

Do you really think a judge would allow a guilty verdict based on stolen genetic data obtained from a hacker?

Do you really think braindead landlords and HR people would make decisions based on Promethease or whatever future tool replaces it?

Monetarily the genetic data is marginally valuable at best, which is the same reasons 23andme revenue comes almost entirely from novelty-seeking consumers rather than industry.

[autoexec]

> Do you really think a judge would allow a guilty verdict based on stolen genetic data obtained from a hacker?

The judge won't have any idea how the innocent person's data got entered into the government's DNA database. The same way that judges doesn't care how police got your fingerprints on file (They got mine when I was in grade school. Teachers lined all the kids up in the hallway and the police fingerprinted us all. They told us it was in case we were kidnapped.). The judge cares about how the DNA was collected at the scene of the crime. It's enough that it matched DNA in the government's database. Even if it was discovered that the DNA came from 23andme's data I doubt they would care.

> Do you really think braindead landlords and HR people would make decisions based on Promethease or whatever future tool replaces it?

They already perform illegal background checks on employees and renters. (see https://money.cnn.com/2014/04/09/pf/data-brokers-ftc/index.h...). Whatever interesting data can be extracted from the DNA that was leaked will be added to the dossiers data brokers have on the victims.

[funcDropShadow]

> This seems pretty far fetched.

At the begin of Hitler's reign, the Nazis started to ask people at many occasions for so-called "Ariernachweis" papers. Those were collections of documents to show that someones ancestors were pure according to their race theory. Many people didn't question this at the beginning. Later that data was used to round up minorities, i.e. to commit the wellknown atrocities.

Once data is centrally collected, you cannot know for which future purposes it'll be used. So, the question with regards to companies like 23andme should be: Do you trust the current owners, all future owners, and current and future business partners to not misuse and safeguard your DNA data?

> Monetarily the genetic data is marginally valuable at best Tell that to big pharma, health insurers, adoption agencies, dating sites, and companies that produce addictive products for consumers.

> Do you really think braindead landlords and HR people would make decisions based on Promethease They have shown to make decisions based on DEI declarations. I rest my case.

[dspillett]

> Do you really think braindead landlords and HR people

Maybe that part is far fetched. But insurance people will make user off it I'm sure. By letting this data out there you might be opting in to higher costs, or hassle getting insurance at all, that way.