Remember That DNA You Gave 23andMe? - The Atlantic (archive.ph)

submitted 1 month ago by LaGG_3@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

15 comments fedilink hide all child comments

surprised-pika-messed-up Who would've thought giving a private company your DNA data would be bad

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 38 points 1 month ago

Honestly wouldn't surprise me at this point if the whole thing was a psyop to create a database of future undesirables.

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 39 points 1 month ago

Conspiracy aside, this will 100% be used to do this in a soft-fascist neoliberal "oh, it's potentially too expensive to care for these people" way.

I would not be surprised if this data ends up being used in background checks or some distopian shit to keep people from getting jobs or whatever.

[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

We're already seeing talks of eliminating preexisting conditions. Insurance companies would be stupid not to buy consumer data to look for things. The GOP have been wanting to gut Obamacare since day one, which means democrats are going to outflank Trump by eliminating preexisting conditions because "Think of our poor, little insurance mom and pop small businesses!"