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Yeah, but why not support companies doing "the right thing" and nudge the trend towards companies that respect and preserve the privacy interests of their customers.



They do respect it. You have to sign up for research and fill out a thousand surveys before any of that data is used for… research.


So why's everyone making such a fuss about 23&me this week?


Journalists are kind of bad at understanding how things actually work.


I really wish there were more outlets like how for the legal/news junkie circuit we have things like MeidasTouch or whatever its called and the other YouTuber journalists (they deserve that umofficial title because what they do is top shelf journalism or at least investigative YouTubing.




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