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23andMe website > settings > Research & Product Consents.

There are three options:

- Research Consent Document: Allow 23andMe researchers to use your genetic information to study a variety of topics, stripped of name and contact information and aggregated. May involve 3rd party collaborations including non-profits, pharmaceutical companies, and academic institutions. Results of research may be shared publicly.

- Health Records Project: Connect your data to your healthcare providers using "Human API"

- Individual Data Sharing: This is a supplement of the first one and includes additional data points, most of which come from interacting with the website.

This information is available directly on the page I referenced, not hidden in a ToS document.



Thanks! So none of those are checked by default and the user has to manually go to "Settings" and then "Consents"? If that's the case, I don't see what the issue is, people really gave them the consent to do what they're doing now.


Right, these require active consent from the user.

The system will prompt the user to decide at enrollment time - they don't have to seek it out, but it certainly is not opt-out.




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