Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Consumer DNA
Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Consumer DNA
It really sucks because it's not just the data of the people who chose to participate in this, but also effectively all of of these people's biological children.
I know that my idiot parents both did one of these things - it's so frustrating.
Sorry sweetie you can’t have low deductible health insurance because meemaw and peppep wanted to see what % Cherokee they were 50 years ago
My siblings did it, so they effectively have mine
I know damn well this will be used for one drop rule purposes in the future.
We all knew this shit was coming. Big Pharma is cartoon villain shit.
I honestly thought they were already doing this.
They've been giving it to cops for a while. They'll use the extended family to pin point their unknown person, so like if you have some third cousins that have gotten in, they'll possibly be able to find you. If a parent has their information in, or both, well your family for a few generations will be fucked.
I AM VINDICATED.
So many people I know kept pushing me to do this cause they thought it was fun, and they always thought I was paranoid for saying I didn't want to give a corp my literal dna.
At my job with the city the way you punch-in is using your fingerprint. I told them I didn't want to do it. It's the only way to do it. When I looked into it, the company owns your biometric data and can do whatever they want with it. Can't wait to see the blowback on this one.
This makes me want to get into biometrics spoofing even more. Not to take someone else’s identity but in order to hide my real biometrics.
We all knew this was going to happen honestly, but it makes me want to puke to think that it's even legal.
We all assumed it was already happening
Every damn warning we said about this company has come true. The only reason this is legal is because there's money to be made at the expense of others.
So glad my relatives that are into genealogy/family tree research see DNA companies like this as cheating
yeah just talk to your grandparents if you want to know this stuff goodness sake. Any ancestral connection to a place past 5 generations is wiped out anyway
It helps that my family doesn't give a shit about where our ancestors lived and care more about how we're related to other members of our ethno-religous group. Like they'll meet someone with a certain last name, ask a few questions about grandparents and your mother's maiden name, and figure out you're second cousins three times removed, that sort of thing. No one's looking back to see which corner of eastern europe they could claim right of return to just because their great-great-great-great-grandfather lived there
I FUCKING KNEW IT
Health insurance is next if they don’t have it already.
I’m still convinced this data will be used for eugenics too.
"We are pleased to announce a GATTACA society, as featured in the hit movie 'please don't make this real' GATTACA."
Linking 23andMe's press release because every article I can find on it is paywalled
Press release text
23andMe today announced a new, non-exclusive data license with GSK which extends their collaboration and enables GSK to conduct drug target discovery and other research using the 23andMe database, the world’s largest recontactable resource of genetic and phenotypic information from consented participants. Under an amendment to their Collaboration Agreement, 23andMe will receive a $20 million upfront payment for a one year, non-exclusive data license. The license will also include access to certain services such as further analyses of the 23andMe data not provided in the core data release.
“We’ve had an incredibly successful collaboration with GSK over the past five years, and we are excited to continue our work together,” said Anne Wojcicki, CEO and Co-Founder, 23andMe. “With approximately 50 programs developed over the last five years, we are thrilled to work with GSK in discovering genetically validated targets. The continued relationship with GSK demonstrates the power of the 23andMe research platform to consistently produce novel insights for therapeutic development, rooted in human genetics.”
Under terms of the new data license, 23andMe will provide GSK with access to de-identified, summary data from global genome- and phenome-wide analysis of the 23andMe database, for a 12-month period, and offer its research services for analyses of the data over that same period. Any new drug discovery programs that GSK chooses to initiate during the agreement will be owned and advanced solely by GSK. 23andMe may be eligible for downstream royalties under certain uses of the database by GSK. As part of the amendment, 23andMe is taking the royalty option on three programs previously initiated by the two companies, which GSK will independently advance, with 23andMe retaining certain rights to downstream royalties. 23andMe and GSK both retain royalties on a number of active programs developed under the initial collaboration.
“The 23andMe research database is constantly growing, which increases its power for therapeutic research over time,” said Adam Auton, Vice President, Human Genetics at 23andMe. “We’ve also made significant strides to increase the power of our database by improving our imputation technology, utilizing whole genome sequencing data to dramatically increase the number of genetic variants that we’re able to interrogate. In addition, we continue to expand our capabilities in deep phenotyping, artificial intelligence and machine learning, rare disease research, and developing recontactable cohorts in specific disease areas, all with the objective of more efficiently identifying drug targets that will hopefully be developed into new medicines.”
other research
Ominous
Under terms of the new data license, 23andMe will provide GSK with access to de-identified, summary data from global genome- and phenome-wide analysis of the 23andMe database, for a 12-month period, and offer its research services for analyses of the data over that same period.
Wait that’s fine. That’s part of the point of 23andMe, de-identified data being used for research was always one of the selling points.
I mean "anonymized" data very frequently is pretty easy to de-anonymize
but yeah nobody commenting doom and gloom seems to have read the details cause its all paywalled
literally anybody could have seen this coming
Death to America
Boomers that I've known were so hooked on their 23andMe fad that I got pressured many, many times to join in.
I'm glad I never did. Fuck 'em.
my family also kept trying to get me to do this and every time I was like if you think I'm gonna give some random company my DNA you're out of your god damned mind
Doesn't matter. Once relatives send in DNA they can make conclusions about your hereditary diseases. If enough relatives send data, they can recreate your own DNA. DNA is just a scaled superposition of your relative's DNA. They don't need your personal DNA strands.
excited for my cousin to get diagnosed with cancer or something and have my insurance rates go up
Sure, but when I tell companies that they should pollute less so people can live healthier, I'm the nosy busybody.
MFW a lot of my mom's side of the family are WASPs so they gladly did this shit, because in their mind, the private sector always has their back. Now the corpos have some of my DNA that they can infer thanks to my uncle wanting he find out if he had any royal blood or something lmao. I hate the antichrist.
What's a WASP in this context?
It stands for "Windows Advanced Server Package" and the most recent release introduces advanced multi-layer security, hybrid capabilities with Azure, and a flexible application platform.
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It stands for Western Asshole Shitty Person, and describes anyone whose takes are so bad that :gulag: is not enough
23andMe&Billionaires
Class action incoming hopefully
looking like a real "you can't unlick my asshole" situation here honestly
sorry honey, the contract has to be enforced
They will pay a symbolic $23 million, 80% of which will go to the lawyers
No way. I'm certain their TOS covers this.
You need to have the research option enabled for your data to be included in this, iirc
*edit: but I agree with your sentiment. This shouldn't even be an option they could pursue.
Death to 23andMe, death to "drugmakers", and death to America.
Still pissed at my family all getting these done. Thanks for putting me in every single database against my will
it's bad that this is non-consensual and for-profit but a large genetic database is helpful for developing medications
I agree. Under socialism, a database of genetics would be truly fantastic for medical research and preemptively alerting people at risk of certain disorders. Under capitalism it's an excuse to not insure people.
I thought it said “dogmakers” and became very intrigued for a moment
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Do it now
So this effects about 90% of white Americans. They're the only ones I see taking this shit seriously.
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