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Well, bio-engineering/gene therapy are both rapidly expanding fields. With privacy being a moveable feast, and medical ethics inconsistent at best, my judgement is that any risk of future misuse is not worth the absolutely zero benefit to me of providing them with my DNA. The more so since my...

Nothing specific. Their t&c’s (used to, last time I looked) permit them to hold and use the data in unspecified ways - very close to “by providing your DNA, you allow us to use it in any way we see fit at at any time, now or in the future”. That doesn’t seem reasonable to me. Perhaps I’d be ok...

My uncle keeps asking me to gob into a tube. He’s well and truly got the bug, and like many newly-converted zealots finds it impossible to understand why I won’t comply. I have no interest in the topic and just as much interest in helping him give my DNA to a random corporate. He’s a...