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What happens to your data if 23andMe collapses? (news.harvard.edu)
submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 84 points 4 days ago (4 children)

It isn't yours, if you use them you signed it all over to them. They patented your DNA.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I’m hoping in 500 years, my DNA sequence is found on a perfectly preserved micro SD card and my clone gets to meet President Camacho and take on Beef Supreme and the Dildozer on Monday Night Rehabilitation.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's the optimistic timeline, we still have to actually get there first.

I am sure you can come with what a pessimistic timeline would look like.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

I don't have to, I watched Planet of the Apes

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They patented your DNA.

You can't patent DNA... They can sell it though, with a simple TOS update (if they even need to).

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] sugar_in_your_tea 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

For those too lazy to click through:

However, on June 13, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in the Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc, that human genes cannot be patented because DNA is a “product of nature.” All gene patents were invalidated with this ruling. However, the ruling did not prohibit the patenting of DNA that is manipulated (i.e., no longer a product of nature) or processes for identifying DNA sequences.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So if a lab rat adds, deletes or edits a person's DNA it is no longer a 'product of nature'?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 1 points 2 days ago

Apparently.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

[...] human genes cannot be patented because DNA is a “product of nature.” All gene patents were invalidated with this ruling.

did you paste the link to admit you were wrong?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 days ago

Did you stop reading before you should have?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

The monsters.

Well, that originally autocorrected to "mobsters," but I suppose that'd work in a certain context, too.

[–] deranger 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

That’s not true in the slightest. I agree with the fuck 23&me sentiment but you don’t have to make things up to criticize them.