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Ancestry/Genealogy

Sylvere

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5. What are your thoughts on 23andMe on privacy for their data?

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Reply #3)

Tue Feb 26, 2019, 08:47 AM

Feb 2019

My husband's late dad was adopted, so he did the ancestry.com test. We also did the Family Tree test, but they removed their family finder database because of the privacy concerns brought up by the 23andMe issues.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nation-now/2018/04/27/ancestry-genealogy-dna-test-privacy-golden-state-killer/557263002/

We want to find some relatives, as his dad had some health issues that might be congenital, but the idea of this data being used by insurance companies to deny care makes us hesitate.

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DNAeXplained - Genetic Genealogy [View all] CountAllVotes Feb 2019 OP

Interesting.. luvs2sing Feb 2019 #1

I know quite a bit via family lore (paternal) CountAllVotes Feb 2019 #2

For what it's worth, each one of the companies that tests DNA PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2019 #3

What are your thoughts on 23andMe on privacy for their data? Sylvere Feb 2019 #5

I'm under the impression they don't share their information. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2019 #6

I pretty much disregard this part of the results The Genealogist Feb 2019 #4

When I first got my results radical noodle Mar 2019 #7

Maybe so! CountAllVotes Mar 2019 #8

That's a bit old now, Ancestry's updated estimates seem to be a *little* better Spider Jerusalem Mar 2019 #9