DNA ancestry tests may look cheap. But your data is the price
▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/10/dna-ancestry-tests-cheap-data-price-companies-23andme
Do customers realise that genetic genealogy companies like 23andMe profit by amassing huge biological datasets ? In 1884, at the International Health Exhibition in South Kensington, four million punters came to view the latest scientific marvels : drainage systems, flushing toilets and electrically illuminated fountains. There, the scientist Francis Galton set up the Anthropometric Laboratory, where common folk would pay 3d (around 80p today) to enter, and anonymously fill out a data card. (...)
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