I'm annoyed at the presumption that I, as a customer, was not aware or on-board with what 23andMe is doing. I did. I'm happy to be part of this. I don't care that someone is making money because of it. I'm just glad that biomedical research to save lives is happening. Why is it a bad thing?
And as a side benefit, through this system I got to meet my second cousin and tell her what my mother remembers about her now-passed-on grandmother (that literally happened last night and I'm still excited about it).
I am a bit nervous about some of the 'we found the criminal by searching the company's DNA database' stuff. I think some regulation around that is needed. And perhaps 23andMe needs to make it more obvious to customers that they will do this research using the DNA.
But as an informed consumer, I was happy to become a customer and participant in this fascinating system.
And as a side benefit, through this system I got to meet my second cousin and tell her what my mother remembers about her now-passed-on grandmother (that literally happened last night and I'm still excited about it).
I am a bit nervous about some of the 'we found the criminal by searching the company's DNA database' stuff. I think some regulation around that is needed. And perhaps 23andMe needs to make it more obvious to customers that they will do this research using the DNA.
But as an informed consumer, I was happy to become a customer and participant in this fascinating system.