[nirvael]

That's the conflict at the heart of the business. But do the public care enough about that? Obviously a HN audience does, but people use Google and Facebook products every day with the awareness that all that data is sold directly to advertisers. With the right messaging ("yes, we sell your data, but it's to drug companies to help make drugs that can cure your illnesses") it's possible that the conflict isnt too much of an issue.

[rchaud]

Drug companies pay pretty well for clinical trials, so why would anyone pay 23andme for their own data, so that 23andme can turn around and sell it to drug companies?

[nirvael]

These are different scenarios, clinical trials are experiments not just genetic information gathering.