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When it first came out, my first thought was privacy.
It's the single most immutable piece of information about a person. You can change your clothes, hair, face, address, phone number, driver's license, passport and SSN (a little harder, but doable), hell -- even your fingerprints if you really must.
But your DNA?
And you'd put it out on some webserver, voluntarily, as unprotected medical data?
it's so crazy to me how people just rushed to hand over their DNA to some random company