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  1. Sale of #23andMe’s Data Would Be Bad for #Privacy. Here’s What its 15 Million Customers Can Do: Existing users can demand 23andMe delete their data or revoke past consent to research.
    Research has shown that a majority of white Americans can already be identified from just 1.3 million users of a similar service, #GEDMatch, due to #genetic likenesses, even though GEDMatch has a much smaller database of genetic profiles. 23andMe has about ten times as many customers.
    eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/sale #DNA

  2. Was passiert eigentlich mit all den #genetischen #Daten, die beim #Genomanalyseunternehmen "#23andme" über Jahre gesammelt wurden, wenn das Unternehmen jetzt #pleite geht? Vom Aufstieg und Fall eines zweifelhaften Geschäftsmodells:
    "Some analysts say 23andMe could go out of business by next year, which raises the question - what's going to happen with the genetic data it has from millions of people?"
    npr.org/2024/09/25/nx-s1-51236

  3. @MarianBWood Too organized for me. Anyways, close (first) cousins are all in my Contacts. Others I know of are likely in WikiTree.
    I do keep a spreadsheet of all of my #DNACousins that I know of though. Most are not so close, but it's a way of tracking how we're related and their various handles on #23andMe , #GEDmatch etc.

  4. Bespoken Spirits raises $2.6M in seed funding to combine machine learning and accelerated whiskey aging - Bespoken Spirits, a Silicon Valley spirits company that has developed a new data-driven process to a... - feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcr #impossiblefoods #machinelearning #unitedstates #bloomenergy #california #derekjeter #nespresso #23andme #brewing #whisky #tools #tc