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Fe₂🦀₃⋅H₂🦀 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 @thegreatape :gentoo: :nixos: :sway:   @Matty-kun I believe 23 and me has already been supplying DNA info to the feds for years. There are news articles about it a few years ago. But you don't even need that. They just obviously are because why wouldn't they.
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Fe₂🦀₃⋅H₂🦀 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 @thegreatape :gentoo: :nixos: :sway:   @Matty-kun oh and of course the articles frame it as a good thing and morally riotous
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thegreatape :gentoo: :nixos: :sway: | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 This also reminded me of something I completely memory holed - So not only is Ancestry.com started by & ran by the Mormon church, but Blackstone (related to Blackrock obviously) bought it this year and owns it. My first thought is they are going to see how DNA affects things like credit and financial decisions.

https://www.blackstone.com/news/press/blackstone-completes-acquisition-of-ancestry-leading-online-family-history-business-for-4-7-billion/
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Fe₂🦀₃⋅H₂🦀 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 @thegreatape :gentoo: :nixos: :sway:   they will need to torture the shit out of that data to make it not look racist
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thegreatape :gentoo: :nixos: :sway: | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Yeah I think about it like, the level of data you can already correlate from everyone's online footprint is going to start getting paired against their DNA. And there's no way in hell that we don't find a bunch of extremely obvious trends based on this. Probably even things that we would never imagine go together. I'm not a biologist at all but I am a nerd and I know that someone smarter than me is already trying to map this data together to see if there's anything interesting. ESPECIALLY since there's money to be made from knowing this.
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Semblance | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 @thegreatape :gentoo: :nixos: :sway:   @Fe₂🦀₃⋅H₂🦀  BlackRock isn't really related to Blackstone anymore, and it isn't necessary to buy Ancestry to know how DNA affects credit and financial decisions.