Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Consumer DNA - eviltoast
    • bitsplease@lemmy.ml
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      Don’t expect much lol, when I pointed out that this was inevitable the most common response was “who cares?”

      Privacy is dead mainly because your average person doesn’t actually care about it

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        Privacy is dead because of the average person. They were informed several times, but they decided it wasn’t important. And they ruined it for everyone else who cared.

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      Were they of the idea that when you tick the “my data can be used anonymously for research” box it meant that their data WOULDN’T be used anonymously for research?