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| We are told we are just coded protein strands. |
23andMe said we were Jewish (less than 1%), very Irish, Mexican, and who knows what -- Denisovan, Neanderthal, Ainu, Native American, Scandinavian, ET, surely there's got to be at least a drop of Sami in there. We were hoping for Basque and Hopi, something Iberian, Dravidian-Aryan, and Anasazi, but no such luck. Now the whole world is going to know it!
23andMe files for bankruptcy as CEO Anne Wojcicki resigns. What will happen to everyone's DNA samples and resultant data?
As another corporation flops or allows our data to be breeched before flopping, Americans are in danger of unwanted disclosures. Ever since the medical industry has been going online, hackers have been having at our data and selling it on the Web (mostly the Dark Web). What does the government do? Pass a report along to DHS, FBI, CIA, NSC, NSA? No, mostly it just sends records to Mormons, who are keen to store the records inside a hollowed-out mountain.
That's what ancestry.com is all about or at least how it started. Someone has to hold on to those records, and it can't just be the Catholic Church and its system of official baptisms. What to do as 1984 is upon us? Big Brother, having been watching, will upload the records to AI ("Hal" 2001 a Space Odyssey) to sort out. Surely, Dave will figure it out. It's not like AI can read lips. Can it?
California Attorney General Rob Bonta, what's going on? Bonta says update profiles and delete data, requesting samples be destroyed before they fall into the hands of a new buyer with a new privacy policy.
- Forbes; Fox, Reuters, March 24, 2025; Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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