Regeneron is to pay $256 million in cash to acquire “substantially all” of 23andMe’s assets, including its massive biobank of around 15 million customer genetic samples and data.

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    19 hours ago

    My aunt did this along with posting a bunch of family photos and falling for those quizzes that ask your pet’s name or your childhood address. If you have one person like that the privacy of your entire family is compromised.

    We told her back around 2010 not to do this kind of stuff, but she’s somewhere between “If I have nothing to hide” and “what’s the harm?”. I hope she gets it now, but we don’t talk to her often

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      17 hours ago

      People like that doesn’t know how much we have to hide.

      I don’t even want people to know how I wipe my ass, let alone what genes I have.

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        11 hours ago

        Ahha fuck this is the same company I saw Martin Shrekli hawking. Its gonna be absolute fuckery good bye