I kept my DNA out of those services, because they felt like they were on the “socks-for-cats dot com” side of the internet hosting maturity scale…

I hate being right. Maybe I’m being unfair, but I’m glad I waited.

Edit: At least it’s not as stupid as someone emailed an excel sheet or left an admin password set to “princess”.

In my opinion, we need much higher security standards for companies that track ancestry or DNA data, because there are active fascists out there willing to pay a premium for that data. And we need to not let that happen again. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

Edit 2:

Fuck. I hate being right.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/04/23andme-confirms-hackers-stole-ancestry-data-on-6-9-million-users/

“In early October, a hacker claimed to have stolen the DNA information of 23andMe users in a post on a well-known hacking forum. As proof of the breach, the hacker published the alleged data of one million users of Jewish Ashkenazi descent and 100,000 Chinese users, asking would-be buyers for $1 to $10 for the data per individual account.”