This was just waiting to happen tbh
I’ve been telling people since this dna testing started that sooner or later that data will be for sale, an insurance company will buy it, and then get used against people to increase their health insurance rates or deny claims.
But I’m a crazy conspiracy theorist according to everyone ;)
Same reason I don’t want to buy a new car anymore…
Same reason I don’t want to buy a new car anymore…
Because of the “driving behavior” data that gets sent out via secret cell connections and bought by insurance companies?
Yup. Go ahead and try turning that cell phone radio thing off. Why do you need an app for remote start? Why can’t it be on the keyfob anymore? But again, nothing to see here - just the continued enshittification of everything.
I just pulled the fuse. Problem solved. Phone start doesn’t work but never used it.
Safest thing that would actually work is to take out the battery. ;-)
Not on electric cars. LOL
What! What cars have this???
Yes, unfortunately. I dunno if it’s a global thing or just in the US, but several years ago, they started sending your car’s computer data to insurance companies, who then use it to determine how well you drive and what insurance rates they want to give you.
It’s really scummy.
Here is at least one of those reports the other poster touched on
All cars for awhile. Mozilla released a privacy report a year or two ago and it seems nobody cared. Which is why they can do this stuff.
Link that doesn’t force you to sign up for the website.
I hate this understatement so fucking much. No, those 15 million are just the people that directly gave their dna to 23 & me.
In reality, you only need to sample the genetic data for a small sample of the population to get the genetic information for the majority of the population. These people have relatives, and 23 & me has their data, too. They have most of ours.
Saying it just affects those 15 million is such an abysmal misunderstanding of genetics.
How many gigabytes of data is that?
