Spittle tells a story????

[troutrus]

The article mentions privacy. 🤣
Who the heck is naive enough to send in their spit and believe it will be handled with discretion?

[Onslow]

A recent quick visit to the Ancestry.com account revealed they've updated their ancestry origins section, not the platform, but their area of origin work.  From my perspective, ancestry.com has gone completely wackadoodle. I know where my ancestors came from because German/Swiss folk generally keep good notes, and almost every person in my family tree is documented since 1753-1800. I also know my legal father is my biological father due all the DNA relatives that are related to my father's side.  Ancestry.com is now claiming 60 percent of my is from mainland Britain.  While there is much Scandi, Roman, Norman, Anglo/Saxon folk in Britain which means northern Krauts may well possess the same genetic material as most Britons, all of my known forbearers come from the upper Rhine river watershed. 


More to the point, cheesy commercial DNA readers are a proven reliable source of information regarding our health, lol.

[Woolly Bugger]

REMEMBER THAT DNA YOU GAVE 23ANDME?
The company is in trouble, and anyone who has spit into one of the company's test tubes should be concerned.


23andMe is not doing well. Its stock is on the verge of being delisted. It shut down its in-house drug-development unit last month, only the latest in several rounds of layoffs. Last week, the entire board of directors quit, save for Anne Wojcicki, a co-founder and the company's CEO. Amid this downward spiral, Wojcicki has said she'll consider selling 23andMe—which means the DNA of 23andMe's 15 million customers would be up for sale, too.
23andMe's trove of genetic data might be its most valuable asset. For about two decades now, since human-genome analysis became quick and common, the A's, C's, G's, and T's of DNA have allowed long-lost relatives to connect, revealed family secrets, and helped police catch serial killers. Some people's genomes contain clues to what's making them sick, or even, occasionally, how their disease should be treated. For most of us, though, consumer tests don't have much to offer beyond a snapshot of our ancestors' roots and confirmation of the traits we already know about. (Yes, 23andMe, my eyes are blue.) 23andMe is floundering in part because it hasn't managed to prove the value of collecting all that sensitive, personal information. And potential buyers may have very different ideas about how to use the company's DNA data to raise the company's bottom line. This should concern anyone who has used the service.

https://apple.news/AqQrMQGPCRdi4TFA7po9w2g

[trout-r-us]

According to birth certificates I've seen, my mom and dad were both born in the U.S.A. over 100 years ago.

[Phil]

I know my ancestry. That's what my widower Aunt did "back in my day" -- she spent hours researching and sent handmade booklets to us with our family tree and heritage. Also it helped to have a grandfather that lived to 101 and a father that lived to 99. We recorded their memories on a cassette tape recorder.

[Woolly Bugger]

Delete your DNA from 23andMe right now
!

The genetic information company declared bankruptcy on Sunday, and California's attorney general has issued a privacy "consumer alert."

If you're one of the 15 million people who shared your DNA with 23andMe, it's time to delete your data.
The genetic information company, best known for its saliva test kits, announced Sunday it is headed to bankruptcy court to sell its assets. And 23andMe's financial distress prompted California Attorney General Rob Bonta to issue an unusual privacy "consumer alert" about it Friday.
"I remind Californians to consider invoking their rights and directing 23andMe to delete their data and destroy any samples of genetic material held by the company," he said in a statement.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/03/24/23andme-dna-privacy-delete/