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Selling data is the credit card and ad tech industry, not genetics. Your 23AndMe data has approximately no value unless you take the research surveys, since there's nothing to associate it with.


why do people say stuff like this?

for example, they sell it to GlaxoSmithKline

not to mention the recent data breach


They don't because it isn't worth anything. You are misunderstanding what happens.




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