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They not only have (not own) the DNA of every person who's used it but also large parts of the DNA of all of their close relatives, consenting or not.
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I'll take "Shit we saw coming 20 years ago" for $600, Alex.
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You have to adjust your number, since this happened 5 year ago
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I know it’s a meme sub but that happened back in 2020.
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Yes and (read: /s but key truth) by conditional probability we know that a relatively small sample^*^ is sufficient to infer variance across populations with a high degree of accuracy.
^*^ Assuming uniform random, which does not at all describe their dataset. The key truth however is that this data is like a massive, uninterrupted game of minesweeper with a huge number of implicitly solved cells. Hence its value to any genomicist.
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I was really hoping this was made up.
It is not.
Column: Why spend billions for Ancestry's DNA data if you don't plan to use it?
Investment firm Blackstone acquired the genealogical site Ancestry for $4.7 billion. It says it has no plans to mine people's DNA data for profit.
Los Angeles Times (www.latimes.com)
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Ancestry.com was founded in 1997.... 20 years seems appropriate
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Called. It. Years ago.
Seriously.
