Blackstone to acquire Ancestry.com for $4.7 billion, giving investment firm total ownership of all DNA from every person who’s ever used the service
Bravo 🐑
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The only member of my family that’s ever been dna tested is my dog and I plan to keep it that way.
For the curious, she’s half chihuahua, half everything else.
When those first started coming out I was intrigued but never did it. No I am glad because who knows what the fuck they do with that information.
Right. It was intriguing. But then I dug a little deeper into the fine print.
Those companies were already selling your DNA to companies. Doesn’t surprise me.
Real issue with this is privacy for non-participants.
Doesn’t matter if they don’t have your DNA if you’ve got sheep in your family who sent theirs to them and did a family tree putting you in there.
They don’t need your DNA - they’ve got you mapped indirectly.
Makes you wonder how that’s not a privacy argument in court especially at a transfer of sale
Big yikes
Who could have ever seen this coming? LOL.
Another “conspiracy theory” they said.
No one is going to own the DNA, this will just tell me that I am 1 1 millionth Portuguese. Blah blah blah.
But now I know I had a fourth cousin from Norway!
Shit man, I thought your were joking
Covid was a giant DNA harvesting scheme. Change my mind.
https://twitter.com/RadarHits/status/1632053666738851843
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Never waste a crisis 🤙
Fuck! How many more black pills?
Shocking! Not at all. Been telling ppl for yrs not to do this