How careful should I be about sending my spit out to one of these companies (Ancestry, 23andMe, etc.)? I don't know how seriously to take the warnings about the risks of having my genetic information in some company's database. (Hi, I don't know shit about science or information security.)

Ancestry now says on their site that you can ask for your results and your sample to be destroyed, if you want...

Trustworthy?

has anyone ever challenged their results?

so I'm sure there's some disgruntled and/or confused customers out there.

so I'm sure there's some disgruntled and/or confused customers out there.

sell your data, which is why I haven't.........yet. it prolly doesn't really matter since everybody sells everything.

I'm also wondering how soon insurance companies will get this info as it pertains to health care cost. if your dna suggests that you'll get parkinsons at 75, how will that change your policies as you get closer to that age?

I think ancestrydna has the largest database for matching you up.

>sell your data, which is why I haven't.........yet. it prolly
>doesn't really matter since everybody sells everything.
>

i'm just in a swirl of a million other dummies who gave up all their info.

>I'm also wondering how soon insurance companies will get this
>info as it pertains to health care cost. if your dna suggests
>that you'll get parkinsons at 75, how will that change your
>policies as you get closer to that age?
>

don't know. but ancestry already had a situation where they gave up some people's info to the police.

>don't know. but ancestry already had a situation where they
>gave up some people's info to the police.

this police work will probably lead to more profiling.

>>>ow soon insurance companies will get this info as it pertains to health care cost. if your dna suggests that you'll get parkinsons at 75, how will that change your policies as you get closer to that age?


and faster than you think

Who owns my DNA?
Which company has the right to sell my DNA?
Is there a database somewhere I don't know about?

The anti consumer climate of this current administration has me worried they'll allow a huge database available to law enforcement officials and corporations. Imagine applying for a new position and getting screened with DNA. This could make profiling even worse. Part of me feels this is a covert white supremacist attempt to turn my life upside down but maybe that's just me.

either africandna or african ancestry
had it on the website, even before this latest reveal that ancestry "retains all rights" and 23andme was selling to 3rd parties



the other thing is the black companies are matching to tribes, not countries

some pros and cons to each i guess.
but the country match is to a place that didnt even exist 100 hundred years ago, much less during middle passage

so being "40% nigerian" when nigeria has dozens of tribes and the tribes crossed current national borders
is kinda like if your match was 40% american. beyond the surface its not saying a whole lot

but blk ppl collectively know like 5% of our background so they making money selling us another 6%

a friend, not sure what company he used but his report just said '85% subsaharan'. lol wtf

also some ppl get into finding their haplogroup and researching that, etc


i wanna do it but i dont wanna do it.
or send samples to all the companies and see what they say when results dont match

part of me is fine with just being given regions where my people were generally from *to start*, and also to see if there's any surprises (although their probably won't be.) But maybe I need to rethink that.

Ancestry gets *a little* more specific than just a general "Subsaharan", at least when it comes to West Africa. So it wasn't them, at least not recently.


>the other thing is the black companies are matching to tribes,
>not countries
>
>some pros and cons to each i guess.
>but the country match is to a place that didnt even exist 100
>hundred years ago, much less during middle passage
>
>so being "40% nigerian" when nigeria has dozens of tribes and
>the tribes crossed current national borders
>is kinda like if your match was 40% american. beyond the
>surface its not saying a whole lot
>
>but blk ppl collectively know like 5% of our background so
>they making money selling us another 6%
>
>a friend, not sure what company he used but his report just
>said '85% subsaharan'. lol wtf
>
>also some ppl get into finding their haplogroup and
>researching that, etc
>
>
>i wanna do it but i dont wanna do it.
>or send samples to all the companies and see what they say
>when results dont match
>
>

There's a whole page about privacy for your ancestry DNA test on their site. I'd be more inclined to use a company such as that which has been around for a long time, they seem quite reputable.



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i could be wrong, i never looked this up but it is something I've heard through the years that mormons update and maintain a genealogical database of every one

Salt Lake City. didn't have time to venture inside tho.

>i could be wrong, i never looked this up but it is something
>I've heard through the years that mormons update and maintain
>a genealogical database of every one

... cause I've worked on it but it's just names from all over the world. The AncestryDNA database is a separate thing from the list of names on ancestry.

j/k

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I guess it's cool to see that far back but I feel like after a few generations they just throw shit together that sounds cool.

My fam has a family tree/book that goes back a few generations but seems like once you get to slave days it's a toss up.

If so a lot of these so called Caucasian people are black as hell
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