“Don’t Be Evil”
Note: This news is a few weeks old now, but I only just discovered it.
Google recently invested $3.9 million in biotech company 23andMe. 23andMe was co-founded by Anne Wojcicki, the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
To quote TechCrunch:
“The company is going to help people take DNA tests to get more information on their genetic health. The company will try to keep costs low and get information back to users as quickly as possible.”
Now with Google’s predisposition to indexing any and all data that they can get their hands on, aswell as their recent achievement of being ranked as the worst major internet destination for user privacy. That combines to make me just a little uncomfortable with the idea that Google could also keep a record of my DNA.
It makes sense for Google though I guess. It’s just part of their never ending
quest to know everything.
