It's not clear to me this takes automatic effect, and actually states "If you agree to this consent" - I assume that users are given the option to consent or not?
This seems to be the usual TOS - https://www.23andme.com/privacy/
and it says "We will not share your genetic data ... without your explicit consent."
So the news here is "Drugmakers are set to pay 23andMe to access consumer DNA for consumers that have given their explicit consent to do so". Maybe the fact 23am is getting paid is considered a sour note here, but it doesn't seem this is otherwise underhanded.
No, there's nothing underhanded here. 23&Me has never hidden its long term intention to use genetic data, from informed consent customers, to help solve diseases. To me the idea was obvious from before their founding, and it's amazing how long it took them to get to this point.
This seems to be the usual TOS - https://www.23andme.com/privacy/ and it says "We will not share your genetic data ... without your explicit consent."
So the news here is "Drugmakers are set to pay 23andMe to access consumer DNA for consumers that have given their explicit consent to do so". Maybe the fact 23am is getting paid is considered a sour note here, but it doesn't seem this is otherwise underhanded.