Are any of the DNA testing companies trustworthy? - eviltoast

So obviously we’re all on Lemmy for a complicated combination of reasons, but we all likely share some common ground, namely…

  • need for privacy
  • need to own/control/access the data we produce
  • healthy skepticism about the trustworthiness of for-profit corporations, in general

So if we don’t want meta to know even innocuous things; like how many times/when we message our grandma, and we don’t google to know when we’re searching for remedies to a rash, and we don’t want reddit to… Well we just don’t want reddit - we don’t want them to profit from or weaponize that data against us in a myriad ways.

We also don’t want them artificially removing features and creating tiered layers of service/value hidden behind a paywall (I understand this is very present in the some of the commercially available DNA services).

So that brings me to DNA testing services. Since they started to emerge in the mainstream they were immediately an interesting, exciting novelty and I also knew it was data I wouldn’t feel safe trusting with a for-profit org - with broken systems like law enforcement and health insurers on speed dial and just salivating for the goodies they collect.

So all that considered, any groups that provide this type of service that you do trust/use, and why?

  • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    1 year ago

    I wouldn’t necessarily consider that harmless, my mom’s family is Jewish and that’s kinda disrespectful given their history of doing that to Holocaust victims without their consent.

    • Devi@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      I agree that it’s offensive, I just mean from a danger point of view, they’re just looking for the names of dead people, not your personal data.