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Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Consumer DNA::GSK will pay the DNA testing company $20 million for non-exclusive access to genetic data.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How would you feel about your children being unable to get insurance coverage because a close relative used the service and the insurance company decided they were at too high risk for expensive medical problems due to similarity of genes?

To be clear, this is a made-up scenario that would be illegal under current US law.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Companies break laws all the time. The punishment is frequently small compared to profits from the crime.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Vague nihilism doesn't dispute what I said

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The law here is inconsequential. The only protection that is certain is for the data not to exist.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The law here is inconsequential

It's very much not.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. The issue you pointed to is being investigated after all. And there are potential damages if they are found to be violating the law.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did it potentially being illegal actually stop it from happening?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It does stop other things from happening. So how do you square that circle? Or hopefully you can see that your simplistic thinking isn't terribly useful?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It does stop other things from happening

Source please!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

"Prove a negative, please!"

Fuck outta here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You're asking them to explain why the rule of law discourages behaviours deemed to be against the law. You should be able to find evidence for that yourself, it's an elementary tenet of any judicial system.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

You want me to provide a list of laws that insurance companies are not currently violating?

How about the one that you say they will violate? They've been not violating that for years since it was passed.