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Karunamon on Oct 14, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: 23andMe Wins a Second Life, Raises $115M

Invasion of privacy? Considering that you can't even get the health information now, ancestry matching is literally the only reason to use the service. Why would you sign up and go through the whole spitting in a cup song and dance if you didn't want to find relatives?

throwaway_xgqtr on Oct 14, 2015 [–]

Oh, wow, I am out of date. I didn't realize they had pivoted in that way. Sorry for the distraction :)

irremediable on Oct 15, 2015 | | [–]

I made the same mistake here -- I only knew about it from the health-related stuff.

Karunamon on Oct 15, 2015 | | [–]

More like were forced to pivot that way by government fiat :(

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