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  and the worst part is that if a relative does it even without your consent they can link it back to you its all sorts of levels of fucked. They prey on grandmas wanting to know their family history so they can build a database of fuckery
context: This falls into a larger category of "people are giving away too much data and control without even thinking about it." >
  
  I think most of just don't care, to be honest. >
  
  This is absolutely it. Any time I bring up privacy or security it's "I have nothing to hide /I don't care" every time. For over a decade now >
  
  Yea I'm super curious about my ancestry because theres a few adopted people in my tree, but theres literally no privacy policies. Besides using it for criminal cases there's no guarantee that 20-30 years from now insurance companies won't be using that data for premiums, or advertisers using it to most accurately advertise to you, governments and political actors using it to influence your beliefs all nasty stuff so I would never do it. >
  
  Agreed and if insurance companies use it, they will raise your premiums because you inherited a risk of disease whether you have the disease or not. So if you have genes that predispose you to hypertension, for example, but you eat well and work out and have normal blood pressure, they would still raise your premiums. The excuse would be you’re higher risk, even though your lifestyle choices eliminate the risk.