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Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Consumer DNA (www.bloomberg.com)
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[–] Devi@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago

People are getting very confused here. You can allow your anonymised data to be used for research. This is not new whatsoever and it's done by consent.

What IS new is that a company (GSK) are about to start using this data. Data that's publicly used already. This may help them to develop some new treatments.