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by dyeje 924 days ago
I thought about offering a product like this but the market seems tough given:

1. Most people don’t care about the privacy aspect

2. People who already got a test from 23andme, Ancestry, etc are unaddressable

1 comments

People are conditioned not care, but I seriously doubt that is avoid argument for not providing anonymity as a default product considering the risks when genome data is breached.

Surely, it’s not that costly to delete data? The only reason to keep this data is for ulterior motives like monetizing.

I'd pay more for credible privacy. You'd think this could support a small business, even assuming there's no angle for a grand VC-funded startup. (Yes, easy for me to say.)

Nebula actually did use to let you download your data and tell them to delete it. When I was looking last year, though, they'd moved to some new model (which I assume this post was about).