DNA Testing and Privacy (Behind the scenes at the 23andMe Lab) - Smarter Every Day 176
Why Hacker News recommends it
Pointed to as an interesting look inside how consumer DNA testing companies process samples.
What it is
Destin of Smarter Every Day goes behind the scenes at the 23andMe lab to show how genotyping works. He also discusses DNA testing and privacy.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2018 to 2019.
What Hacker News said
Recommends pel0 · 2019-12 · on “Ask HN: Would you trust an ancestry DNA test?”
Smarter Every Day made a pretty interesting video about 23&Me. [this video] . I'm not pro/anti 23&Me or anything but it brings an interesting perspective.
Cites propogandist · 2018-06 · on “Luxury hotels are being inundated with requests from self-described influencers”
influencers are very selective with their 'reviews' and may chose to leave out things like data-privacy policies, when reviewing a company that provides you DNA analysis -- which should make you question all the information you get from such sources [this video]
Cites djsumdog · 2019-02 · on “One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Working with the FBI”
Wait a second, I though these companies didn't sequence DNA. I thought most of them just ran your DNA against known patterns to see if they patch to give you a probably/percentage of ancestry, with all the original samples being destroyed: [this video] Does ancestry actually sample and save entire DNA sequences (I guess they have to in order to do family tree matching)? Crazy.