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23andMe Bankruptcy Filing - DNA Data Of Millions Goes Up For Sale

What the hell could people possibly do with DNA that they buy lol
 
Socom7 said:
Any health insurance provider would be quite interested in learning what genetic diseases you may be at risk for.
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Medical AI isn't good enough to work on its own to detect stuff well. You need a large dataset and I mean this could help it if you can get old data and how the sicknesses developed/eventually killed people; though, I'm sure they already get that from the gov itself or companies that utilize Palantir AI hospitals.
 
NCDinosFan said:
Medical AI isn't good enough to work on its own to detect stuff well. You need a large dataset
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A large dataset is exactly what's on offer here.

As for medical AI, it can detect stuff very well - depending on circumstances, but often matching or indeed exceeding highly trained human specialists. Trust me; I build medical AI systems. It's literally my job. But even that's beside the point, because you don't actually need an AI system to process genetic data. We've long had fairly reliable technologies for detecting mutations in critical genes, and with off-the-shelf HPC solutions you can do it efficiently and at scale.
 
I am not worried. Though people who ever have committed serious crimes should be. Even if you did them 50 years ago!

Everyone should know police can now find you based off your family's DNA. DOES NOT HAVE TO BE YOUR DNA.

Say you murdered someone in 60'-70's-80's and have not been caught. Well let's also say you have children and your child does 23&me. Now the FBI buy the DNA data up for sale which has your children DNA. They run the new DNA sets to see if anyone has any DNA related to criminal in question (you in this hypocritical)... They find your child via the DNA registry and ask where you are. Boom they arrest you.

Already Happened In Real Life: I forget whom but they caught a major serial killer that way in California. They found the serial killers grandkids via DNA on some DNA ancestor site, questioned the grandkids where their grandad was and they got him that way. And so many more have been caught this way since.

So yea. Nothing to worry about unless you did some fucked up shit in the past. Lol

Though I remember GOP throwing a fuss over it because they claim it shouldn't be right for government to have or get that information. I say fuck that. It helps catch sick murders and rapists. It's worth it for the government to have that info to catch the most heinous of criminals and bring them to justice.
 
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Socom7 said:
A large dataset is exactly what's on offer here.

As for medical AI, it can detect stuff very well - depending on circumstances, but often matching or indeed exceeding highly trained human specialists. Trust me; I build medical AI systems. It's literally my job. But even that's beside the point, because you don't actually need an AI system to process genetic data. We've long had fairly reliable technologies for detecting mutations in critical genes, and with off-the-shelf HPC solutions you can do it efficiently and at scale.
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Palantir already offers that, or has access to it via their hospital AI implementation at major hospitals. Though, you don't really know how people died or anything from that data as in timings from start to finish on the sickness that happened or the daily cycle of the life which is an issue. 23 and me doesn't have the medical information, hospitals systems do. 23 and me just has dna and family history. Though 23andme made a statement to safeguard the info aka give it to an entity doing what they are doing.
 
NCDinosFan said:
Palantir already offers that, or has access to it via their hospital AI implementation at major hospitals. Though, you don't really know how people died or anything from that data as in timings from start to finish on the sickness that happened or the daily cycle of the life which is an issue.
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There's a saying in IT: "garbage in, garbage out". As in: any system is at best as good as the input data you feed it. That's why everyone and their dog is out for large curated datasets, such as the one in question.

Your genetic information is, obviously, not a complete EHR. However, it still contains a great deal of information about you, and with DNA phenotyping becoming more accurate it can now be used to reconstruct many external aspects of your appearance - possibly allowing identification even without access to any metadata.
 
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