[logjam]

Really. You trust "profit motives". How adorable. But yet you couldn't find space above to relate for us all the charmingly ethical conduct of companies "bound by various contracts and laws, public perception, and their own needs for future customers"...companies like Union Carbide, Monsanto, Enron, Kerr-McGee, British Petroleum, Halliburton, FlowTex, Bayer etc etc ad infinitum.

No thanks. 23andMe is yet another group of shady, for-profit slimeballs making money off people's fears, called out by the FDA for the same kind of arrogant adolescent libertarian horseshit that gave us Vioxx.

And yeah, most of us actually prefer to deal with the "state's shifting policies" - you remember...the policies we vote on.

[mindcrime]

Right, and the State has never violated our trust either.

Nobody should trust any corporation OR government agency blindly. Duh.

But to suggest that corporations are somehow inherently less trustworthy that the government is just... silly. And unsubstantiated.